Rediscover this moving tale of second chances and self-reinvention by New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe.
Her husbandтАЩs suicide left Nora MacKenzie alone, and his shady Wall Street dealings left the Manhattan socialite penniless. By a miracle sheтАЩs held on to their mountainside farmтАФand sheтАЩll keep holding on, no matter what. The property is NoraтАЩs one chance to wring some dignity out of the sham sheтАЩs been living.
The Vermont locals think sheтАЩs a city girl on a nature kick, but sheтАЩs not afraid to get her hands dirty. NoraтАЩs serious about learning the farming businessтАжif she can figure out where to begin. Against the localsтАЩ skepticism, she has only one ally: Charles "C.W." Walker.
C.W. is hardworking, gentle with the animals and a patient teacher of the hundreds of chores Nora needs to learn. Slowly she starts to believe sheтАЩll survive in her new life, even flourish. She might even be willing to open her heart again. But she wonтАЩt return to a life of liesтАжand the truth about C.W. may be more than NoraтАЩs fragile heart can bear.
Originally published in 2010