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To flee a big-city scandal, a Depression-era nighties seamstress flees to the countryside, where she expects to live and work in calmness. Instead, she finds herself unraveling uneasy secrets about herself and the ones closest to her. In Feb of 1931, Marion Hatley steps off a coach and into the small town of Cooper's Ford, expecting she's kept her big-city problems behind. She blueprints to trade the bustling hubbub of the Pittsburgh lingerie shop for the orderly life of the village schoolteacher. More significantly, she feels she'll be trading her reputation-tainting affair with a committed man for the dutiful calm of maintaining her tired aunt. Underpinning her desires for Cooper's Ford is Marion's dream of taking the daily, private studies of most corset-wearing women, especially working women, to a finish, and a lovely one at that. Instead, she confronts new issues: a mysteriously troubled pupil; frustrations in makes an attempt to create a truly comfortable corset, and, most daunting, her ailing aunt. Once a online stranger to Marion, her aunt keeps the main element to old secrets whose revelation could change the way Marion perceives her family and herself. As her problems from Pittsburgh threaten to resurface in Cooper's Ford, Marion finds herself racing against time to learn the truth behind these secrets and also to get to the bottom of her student's troubles. Meanwhile, Marion forms a connection with an area warfare veteran. But her past, and his, may be a great deal to sustain a second chance at pleasure.
