I hadn’t realized that this was part of a series when I initially requested it, but it worked fine as a standalone. The writing is heartfelt and top-notch and the characters well-drawn and relatable. I loved the powerful female role models. The audio version has an enjoyable flow and the narrator drew me in and held my interest throughout. I loved the story and the descriptions of this tight-knit community. Now I want to go back and read the rest of this series.

It’s Independence Day in 1928 and folks are all agog at the impending opening of a new amusement park in a nearby town. when sheriff Lily Ross gets wind of the drowning of a young woman on park property. And that land has been the subject of a fierce dispute between members of the family who all claim to have a stake in it. To make her life even more complicated, Lily learns her brother fathered a child in France during the war before he died and now Esme, the mother of that child is coming to the United States with the baby. But what connection, if any, does Esme have to do with the women found drowned, and what of the infant left on the porch of the amusement park owner? An entertaining read with a realistic and historically accurate setting