A Hard Dry Road Author:Karen Brown Aleta Thornhill, a waitress at the Dust Bowl Diner, is planning her wedding to Delbert Stump, the diner's owner, when his interfering mother reveals something so shocking about Aleta that Delbert disappears. The lovers eventually make up - until Aleta visits her mother's grave on her wedding day. There, joined by Delbert and others, she discover... more »s that they both harbor secrets that, put together, just might cancel the wedding.« less