City lights country candles my penny Haze Lori has left her hectic life in Cleveland for a welcome vacation at her best friend's Evelyn's beautiful home each evening you learn a hundred and two-year-old great-grandmother insist on telling Laura about the woman she has known in her lifetime women should know it women like Henry the beautiful spouse of distinguishing army officer and Louisa the faithful wife of a fundamental minister Helena the Buddy young artist from a prominent family Sam run away farm girl who passed as a man each night Grandma we use her captivating tears of those extraordinary women women who despite their differences were condemned to the same horrible fate because of who they were and all while Evelyn is weaning patiently frightening that Laura Lori will not understand that Grandma is trying to tell her terrified she will she doesn't sound like it's a mystery it sounds like it's a romance and I don't think it's I don't think it's real I don't think it's nonfiction so it it came in nonfiction I'm going to change it to fiction so.