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.

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.

But life, and the folks of Mooney, have other plans for...

It s sticking around when things get tough that you find out what somebody s worth. But I guess you already know that.
So says Lucy Hatch to her stepdaughter, Denny, who has run away from her edgling music career in Nashville to escape marriage troubles. Now back home in Texas, Denny learns that leaving her past behind won t be so simple: she s pregnant. Lucy is also at a turning point. The ower shop where she s worked for years is closing, and her husband, Ash Farrell, is nding that living one day at a time is harder than he thought it would be. Everything used to stay the same in the...