This Heavy Silence
Dottie Connell amazed her neighbors in rural Ohio when she announced that she would farm her father's land following his death. She's determined to make a go of the farm despite debts on the property and hard work.
When Dottie's best friend, Zela, asks to leave her six-year-old daughter with her, Dottie is only too glad to oblige. Yet so wrapped up in her farm is she that she doesn't notice the suitcase full of clothing that Zela leaves for what was sup...
