I got to page 20. Three abandoned books in two days, I am not having a good track record. With the good score this one has on Goodreads, I expected better. I've not read any other book by the author, and I found her style tedious and plodding. I wasn't drawn into any of the characters, something that can usually save a bad book for me. I did skip ahead to read a handful of scenes with Lena's man, Herman. From what I gathered, this book is about a very lucky/blessed woman in her mid 40s that expends too much energy taking care of her small southern community. She finds a man (view spoiler)[ a GHOST man, somehow and someway (hide spoiler)] and this improves her life dramatically. Meh!