The Farmhands

When strangers knock at your door in a storm, do you let them in—or lock them out?

Virgil Brooks has thirty days to save his farm from foreclosure. No money. No help. No hope left. Then two strangers arrive bleeding and desperate on his doorstep during the worst storm Missouri has seen in years. His wife Mary—a woman who nursed soldiers from both sides of the war—refuses to turn them away. What follows is a dangerous bargain: mercy for labor, secrets for survival.

But these aren't ordinary dr...