Second Coming of Lucy Hatch

I was thirty-three years old when my husband walked out into a field one morning and never came back and I went in one quick leap from wife to widow.<p>Lucy Hatch never expected more of life than to spend it on an East Texas farm with her silent and stoic husband Mitchell. Now that the curtain has abruptly come down she's back where it all started -- in tiny Mooney -- living in a rundown old house perched on the edge of nowhere meaning to carry out her widowhood in the manner of her old maid Aunt Dove in peaceful solitude.</p><p>But life and the folks of Mooney have other plans for Lucy. In hardly any time at all she's mortified her entire family. And without even trying she's caught the eye of the local handyman Ash Farrell -- lifting eyebrows and setting tongues wagging. Everyone in town it seems thinks theguitar-playing lady-loving Ash is the wrong choice of company for a brand new widow. All Lucy Hatch knows for sure is that she hasn't had much worth remembering in her first thirty-three years. This is her life after all and for the very first time she intends to live it.</p><p>Marsha Moyer's exhilarating debut is a funny poignant and winsome tale about self-discovery and starting over at the beginning -- and of love popping up in the most unlikely place and time to transform a heart and nourish a soul. You're never going to forget Lucy Hatch.</p>