Hard Reckoning: Hard Reckoning Summary

High Point Farm has been sold. It took a long time to find a buyer, but finally a doctor and his wife not only paid cash for the property, but also bought many of the furnishings within its walls. Corrine attempts to make friends with the new lady of the house, but the lady makes it clear that this will not happen. Corrine is deeply saddened by the whole event.

What is left of the Mulvaney family moves into a split-level ranch house in Marsena. Mulvaney Roofing and Corrine's antiques business both are moved to Marsena as well, although the antiques business is mostly boxes of old treasures that find there way into every nook and cranny of the new house.

Corrine is very depressed during this time, and Judd often finds her sitting in a stupor...