Annie Huckaby is almost resigned to life with Tom, who is hard-working but volatile and abusive. Tom works at a coal mine during the week, leaving Annie to take care of the house and their infant son while Tom’s Native-American friend Jim takes care of the farm. Twila visits every day and helps Annie make a little money of her own selling eggs to the café on the highway. And there’s church on Sunday. Annie is not always alone, but still, she’s lonely…until one afternoon, a peddler named Jake Stern wanders onto the porch wearing a clean white shirt, selling notions and tenderness. After that, everything on the farm belongs to Tom, except Annie's heart.

Set on a farm in Arkansas during the Great Depression, TOM'S WIFE immerses the reader a way of life filled with hard work, simple pleasures, and real poverty. Told from Annie’s point of view, the story shows what friendship, honor, and love meant when you have little else.

This novel rings true on many levels and women will especially grasp its message.
-- Alan Caruba, Charter Member, National Book Critics Circle

“Tom's Wife” is a choice pick for anyone looking for a moving period novel, highly recommended.
-- Midwest Book Review