"The story of a woman's love, sacrifice, and bravery to save a small, wounded boy. . . . Beautiful." — Kathleen Kent, national bestselling author

New York Times –Bestselling Author

Tennessee, 1950: Still single and in her early thirties, Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid; a label she takes with good humor and a grain of salt. But when her mother dies, leaving her to live alone in the house she grew up in, to work the farm she was raised to take care of, she finds herself lost in a kind of loneliness she hadn't expected. After years of rebuffing the advances of imperfect, yet eligible bachelors from her small town, Ivorie is without companionship with more love in her heart and time on her hands than she knows what to do with.

But her life soon changes when she encounters a feral, dirty-faced boy who has been stealing from her garden. Even though he runs back into the hills as quickly as he arrives, she's determined to find out who he is because something about the young boy haunts her. But what she can't imagine is what the boy faces, each day and night, in the filthy lean-to hut miles up in the hills. Who is he? Where did he come from? What would make him desperate enough to steal and eat from her garden? And, more importantly, can she save him?

As Ivorie steps out of her comfort zone to uncover the answers, she unleashes a firestorm in the town—a community that would rather let secrets stay that way.

Donna VanLiere