Have you ever wished you could speak with a character you met in a book? Liz Benton, a widow with two grown daughters, certainly has. But as a writer of historical fiction, she has the ability to make it happen-or at least, she used to. Two years after her husband's death, Liz feels as if her muse has fled, leaving her without a voice. Yet, in spite of her writer's block, Liz has traveled to her late uncle's Iowa farm desperately hoping for the inspiration to begin a new book. While cleaning out the farmhouse attic, Liz stumbles across the diary of a 19th century farmer's wife, and begins to...