When Day Is Done is a romance set in western NC. While visiting her brother’s grave at Oak Grove Cemetery, Esther Robertson, a divorced community college instructor, meets Davis Lee Johnson, a down-on-his-luck cemetery maintenance worker, who will soon offer her an escape from a dull and lonely life. But social prejudices and old family troubles arise to threaten the couple’s growing intimacy. Fred Chappell praises When Day Is Done as ”a love story of steadfast hearts….A real treasure!”
