1o point question. Easy.?

I think it sounds good. I would go for a small town setting, something rural, not suburban. Ooh, she should live alone in a really old house with a turret in the woods in North Carolina! Or Maine. Or Virginia. Basically, a small town environment in a place with woods that you know enough about to write a decent story line about it. Anyway, it sounds like a lovely story. Have fun writing it!