Winter Falls of the Twin Willows Trilogy, by Nicole Maggi, focuses around a girl named Alesia Jacobs who lives with her mom on a goat farm near the sea of Maine. Her mother, Lidia Jacobs, is originally from Italy before she moved to the little town of Twin Willows, Maine. A couple years later, Alesia's father dies, and she is left with only her mother, but the town was shown to be very supportive of her and her family.