Return to GoneAway Author:Elizabeth Enright A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumble down Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Portia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new old house. Empty for half a century, ugly as ... more »a horned toad, Villa Caprice is a mildewy, cobwebby, boarded up, junk cluttered museum of a way of life long forgotten. But it's also a wonderland filled to the rafters with 50 years worth of treasures, secrets- small msteries that Portia and Julian must solve to uncover the greatest secrets of all...« less