Tina Proffitt

Lost Valley Tina Proffitt

In this romantic mystery, twenty-eight-year-old Misty Sumner, aspiring writer and librarian of St. Mary's School, abandons her dream of becoming a writer one day, quitting the writer's group that meets at the library Tuesday nights in favor of joining the sisters who raised her. Growing up an orphan at St. Mary's, love and belonging are worth more to Misty than her dream of one day becoming a best-selling novelist. Since sweet romance is not in the cards for Misty, she will become a nun. But in order to do that, she must prove her good intentions and convince her priest, Father Christian Hyman, that she is serious. One way to accomplish this is by volunteering to clean up St. Francis Hill's long-neglected valley in preparation for the church's upcoming Memorial Day Festival. It hasn't been held there in twenty-eight years, as long as Misty has been alive, and Father Christian wants to see the old tradition revived. What neither of them know is that a woman went missing in that valley exactly twenty-eight years ago on the night of the last festival held there, and she has not been seen or heard from since. When Misty's dog unearths the bones of an unknown female that has been in the ground almost three decades, the amateur sleuth and her priest embark on a journey to discover who the mystery woman is. Misty becomes obsessed with the idea of finding the young woman's identity and puts her psychic abilities to the task. As she unearths layers upon layers of the lost woman's life, Misty finds that they have more and more in common. And there's a mystery there.
Could the missing woman be Misty's long lost mother? Could the paranormal lead Misty to finding out who she actually was? What other secrets does the lost valley hold that can shed light on the missing pieces of Misty's life?