An 83yearold obituary writer for a struggling smalltown newspaper finds herself embroiled in intrigue stumbling onto the story of her career a country girl has gone missing perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial photographer. Or so it seems. It all could be simply a hoax or a delusion the child and childthief invented from the desperate imagination of a lonely lovelorn farm woman. The fragility of childhood the strength of family and the powerful rumor mills of small rural towns The Co