St. Martin's Press
July 2012
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Featuring: Ivorie Walker
320 pages ISBN: 0312367775 EAN: 9780312367770 Kindle: B0071NOKEQ Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From The New York Times bestselling author comes a
poignant, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel
about an unlikely path to motherhood, and of two lost souls
healing each other.
1950 Tennessee, a time and place that straddles the past and
present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town
(though she's only in her early thirties) and she takes that
label with good humor and a grain of salt. Ever since her
parents passed away, she has hidden her loneliness behind a
fierce independence and a claim of not needing anyone. But
her mother's death hit her harder than anyone suspects and
Ivorie wonders if she will be alone forever.
When she realizes that someone has been stealing vegetables
from her garden—a feral, dirty–faced boy who
disappears into the hills—something about him haunts
Ivorie. She can't imagine what would make him desperate
enough to steal and eat from her garden. But what she truly
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? How did he come to live in the hills? Where did he come
from? 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 secret. The Good Dream is
Donna VanLiere is at her absolute best.
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