After escaping a violent marriage, quiet and gentle Eliza returns to her parents' home with three young daughters. A few years later, she takes a job out on the Kansas prairie as housekeeper for a farmer and his three sons. Despite the constraints placed on women at that time in history, she finds happiness in a new marriage and bears two more children. Then a shocking secret comes to light--one that threatens to tear the family apart.
Joan Pasch lives in Redmond, Washington with her husband and a great many boxes of family photographs and family history. This novel is based on the life of her great grandmother, and it incorporates many memories of the Griffith family which were told to the author by older relatives.
After escaping a violent marriage, quiet and gentle Eliza returns to her parents' home with three young daughters. A few years later, she takes a job out on the Kansas prairie as housekeeper for a farmer and his three sons. Despite the constraints and powerlessness of women at that time in history, she finds happiness in a new marriage and bears two more children. She has found her niche in life as a kind, supportive wife and mother. Then a shocking secret comes to light--a rape that threatens to tear the family apart.
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