Title: The rain sparrow
Description: "A stranger's arrival in a small Southern town stirs up old secrets and new dreams"--

Thriller writer Hayden Winters is deeply ashamed of his past, and so his hunger for an honest relationship and dreams of starting a family remain unsatisfied. Carrie Riley is afraid of everything from flying to thunderstorms, and pretty much of life itself. But meeting the enigmatic writer staying at the Peach Orchard Inn emboldens her to learn everything about him. When they discover a vulnerable boy hiding at the inn, they're led to a centuries-old mystery that haunts Hayden's sleep, and his only safe haven is Carrie. As the secrets of the past and present cause their lives to become entwined, will the grim truth tear them apart?
Subjects: Fiction, Novelists, Women librarians, Secrecy, Fiction, romance, general, Tennessee, fiction
Places: Tennessee