"The ghost of a 19th century Irish immigrant to Minnesota watches over three contemporary American teenagers who live on the plot of land she did as they try to terminate an unwanted pregnancy"-- Provided by publisher.

In a small Midwestern town, over a century ago, Jane Murphy lived and loved on the same small patch of farmland that three teenage girls-- sisters and cousins-- now call home. Jane, an Irish immigrant, was determined to defy her arranged marriage and have both the baby she carried and the young man she loves. Now her ghost watches as the three Whitsun girls fight to assert their own desires in worlds determined to ignore and minimize them-- and struggle with an unplanned pregnancy. -- adapted from jacket and Goodreads info