From the author of Sit! Stay! Speak! comes a tender, terrific novel complete with long-buried secrets, a three-legged pot belly pig, and an irresistible dogāan unforgettable story about love, friendship, and community. Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Mary Alice Monroe.
Caroline OāConnor never dreamed sheād be back home in Cold River, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain town where everyone is āup your business.āā¦they mean well as they drive you crazy. She thought sheād left town for good, but now sheās back, helping to care for her New York born motherāstruck with Alzheimerās, and prone to saying and doing anythingāand her father, the beloved local doctor frustrated he canāt cure his own wife.
As for Caroline, sheās doing ājust fineā coping with her parents, her brazen cousin Ava Dawnās marital disasters, her mostly-deaf dogā¦and with Noah Cranwell, far-flung relative of a local family mostly infamous for running moonshine, an ex-veteran whoās come to Cold River with troubles of his own.
Caroline believes she knows everything about Cold River and the people who live in its hills and hollers ā¦ but sometimes lifeās greatest surprises happen closest to home.