Chapter 2
Graham Cassoni did his level best to keep one eye on Mr. and Mrs. Douglas (he was nowhere near calling them Fred and Sophie), and the other on the jaw-dropping landscape out here at the edge of town. His first couple of weeks in Lightning Gap had been too hectic to explore, much as he wanted to.
The postcard-like setting of the town charmed him almost as much as the twisting mountain drive to get here frightened him. Thanks to the pride and generosity of his new work family, he knew people had settled here at the dawn of the nineteen-hundreds, when the darkness of the first World War and The Great Depression hadn’t yet cast their shadows. Nothing had been planned in those early decades more than working to survive and eventually thrive.
Still, his mind kept trying to convince
