The Mill River Recluse

If you enjoy stories with a Hallmark/Lifetime movie feel to them, then this is the book for you.  I could easily see this as a holiday movie.  It is also a book about how we treat others and how we want to be treated.  The brief premise is that an older woman with social anxiety disorder has become a recluse in her small town.  The book vacillates between the past and the present to tell the story of how this reclusive lifestyle was started and how it affects the town today.  I enjoyed it because of its simplicity.  If you are looking for deep plots and multiple twists and turns, this book will not help you. However, if you are looking for a simple book with a lesson about kindness, pick it up and enjoy.  I don't know if it is available in traditional print, but the e-book was only a dollar or so.