When sixteen-year-old Sarah from Toronto learns that she is to spend the summer with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, she is convinced that it will be the most tedious summer ever. She gets off to a rough start when she meets Luke, the nephew of her grandmother's friend, and one unfortunate event leads to another.

"Winds of L'Acadie", a historical novel for readers ten and up, reveals a painful part of Canadian history through the relationship of two young women from different centuries.