title: A Friend in Need
author: Hurst, Elizabeth M.
description: What does it take to save a marriage?Selena Thornton wants a child, but she is haunted by tragedy and clinical depression.As a result, she won't let her husband anywhere near, however hard he tries to be close to her. A rift has opened up between them and it threatens their marriage.Over three hundred years earlier, against a backdrop of religious oppression, another woman laments the loss of her child, missing presumed dead.A spooky encounter causes a shift in Selena's thinking and she begins to view the world through different eyes. Who is the little girl in the Quaker house? And why does it seem like the most important thing in the world to solve her mystery?A Friend In Need is the second book in the Lost Souls series.