title: Of Needles and Haystacks
author: Fryer, Elizabeth
description: A young woman inherits a farm she isn't meant to have and uncovers a secret her neighbor planned to keep forever... After her parent's untimely deaths, Dorothy Trafton has nowhere to go but her uncle's Kentucky farm, a place she's never visited. Uncertain of her surroundings, grief festers. It doesn't help that her war-scarred neighbor, James Bleu, knows more about her mother's secret life--and family--than she does. And why does he lie about his involvement with her father? When news of her inheritance, the contents of an old trunk, and a disaster upend her life, Dorothy must forge ahead by making a home for herself in a dilapidated cottage--alone. Yet she can't ignore Mr. Bleu's change of ways. His kindness runs far deeper than she ever imagined... 310 pages