GOSHEN
Novel Synopsis

While all her friends seem to be either advancing their careers, having babies, or both, thirty-five-year-old Diana Vale, childless and temporarily unemployed, still hasn’t found her calling. When Diana’s husband, Warner, takes a new job in Kentucky and they settle into an old colonial in the pastoral town of Goshen, Diana begins a journey of self-discovery, re-examining her marriage, faith, and career options, as well as her complicated relationship with her recently deceased mother—all while facing mounting pressure from friends, family, and even her husband, to have a child.

But only when she discovers a vineyard hidden in the hills beyond her backyard is Diana filled with her first maternal instincts. She convinces her gruff, strong-willed neighbor, Vi, to let her help in the young vineyard. Soon Diana finds herself embroiled in a new struggle, which pits Vi, who is pursuing an alternative crop in the traditional tobacco-growing state, against powerful opposing forces. Diana finds inspiration for her true passion, art, through the vineyard and her friendship with Vi, but she also discovers that the road to authenticity sometimes comes at a high price.

With the fertile, rolling hills of North Central Kentucky as its backdrop, Goshen explores the infinite bounty of love, land, community, and friendship.