Heaven Sent
Jove, Sep 2001, 5.99, 309 pp.
ISBN: 0515131814
In 1897 San Angelica, California, Callida Prophet serves as the rural postal carrier for the town. When little Becky Lockheart began to write letters to her recently deceased mother, Callie is stunned by the child's grief and though a felony, she reads the letters and responds in kind.
One letter claims that Becky's father Aubrey plans to hire a “nany” to take care of the sad little girl, ...