The Harvest of Hallow Creek

Hallow Creek grew around a cold spring and a gristmill, and the Kovács family has farmed the valley since before the Civil War. Ana Kovács came home to save it and has spent three years keeping the bank at arm's length. What she doesn't know is that the bank's patience has a name. Teodor Balan runs an import business out of a Baltimore warehouse and has quietly bought the debt on every farm around hers. When he comes to walk the property, she mistakes him for a buyer's agent and shows him the hayfields herself. He doesn't correct her for four days. On the fifth, in the barn, in the rain, he tells her the truth. By spring the creek has flooded, the valley knows her secret, and the man who owns her debt is the father of her child. Teodor gives up more than she will ever know to keep her farm. When she finds out, Ana has to decide what she's willing to forgive — and what she's willing to claim.