New York: Norton, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book, second novel, set in Idaho where a lonely retired and widowed carpenter has just received a new heart (from his beloved grandson who was killed in a car crash) and so he is told by by his doctor, he is "set for life" but lonely and aimless, it doesn't seem that way to him until he provides a refuge for a difficult young teenage girl. One reviewer said "Cloying? Corny? Not in the least. Freeman has built toward the climax so carefully that its great surge of emotion seems the most natural thing on earth; once again, her unsentimental celebration of simple goodness marks her as a writer to be treasured." Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page and SIGNED 'Fondly, Judith." Winner of the Western Heritage Award for Best Novel. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03027X.