The First Gift

Bringing to mind classics like Catherine Marshall's Christy, society's standards are put to the test to save a neglected child in Ruth Logan Herne's new romance, The First Gift. Set in Northern Appalachia, this poignant novel tells the story of five-year-old Cassie Carruthers, a little girl who lives in a bug-infested shack in the hills of Western New York's Southern Tier. Her mother has died and Cassie spends her days fending for herself while her alcoholic father drinks himself into a stu...