Books by Diane Hester

On a wintry New England morning an innocentshort-cut turns to disaster when the snow-coveredfield Lauren Donnelly crosses turns out to be anot-so-solidly-frozen stream.A passing stranger comes to her aid.Only to fall through the ice himself andsuccumb to the frigid waters.Struggling to come to terms with the tragedy,Lauren reaches out to the man’sonly daughter and long-time care-giver,a woman now suffering financial hardship.But Ada Phelps is not the devoted,grief-stricken offspring she pretends. And making people pay for their crimes isthe one thing she has always done best.Some debts should never be repaid.