Mary Alice Monroe 
Long Road Home 

Her husbands suicide left Nora Mac Kenzie alone, and his shady Wall Street dealings left the Manhattan socialite penniless. By a miracle shes held on to their mountainside farm and shell keep holding on, no matter what. The property is Noras one chance to wring some dignity out of the sham shes been living. The Vermont locals think shes a city girl on a nature kick, but shes not afraid to get her hands dirty. Noras serious about learning the farming business… if she can figure out where to begin. Against the locals skepticism, she has only one ally: Charles ‚C.W. Walker. C.W. is hardworking, gentle with animals and a patient teacher of the hundreds of chores Nora needs to learn. Slowly she starts to believe shell survive in her new life, even flourish. She might even be willing to open her heart again. But she wont return to a life of lies…and the truth about C.W. may be more than Noras fragile heart can bear.