In the Land of Second Chances

Calvin Millet struggles to cope with a series of disasters--his wife leaves him, his daughter is terminally ill, his store faces bankruptcy, and his house is destroyed by a tornado--but the arrival of a mysterious stranger, traveling salesman Vernon L. Moore, who arrives in town to sell games of chance to the store and possesses an uncanny talent for asking life-altering questions, helps Calvin and the other inhabitants of Ebb, Nebraska, rediscover hope and second chances. A first novel.