The Newcomer

Elizabeth Fairchilds, the main character in this third novel in the trilogy, Three Young Ladies of Clarke, to her dismay, arrives in Berryville, Virginia as the new owner of a hat shop. The year is 1916. At age twenty her life has turned upside down. Everything is foreign to her: living on her own, running a business, the town and its people.

With the aid of a local young woman, Elizabeth struggles out of her troubled world and shows strength of character as she forges ahead in her quest to regain what is rightfully hers.