"I'm not going back to the orphanage. If you don't take me to my Aunt Eleanor's I'll go by myself. I'm pretty sure I could figure it out." Precocious ten-year-old Millie Cage carries a tattered postcard depicting an image of the idyllic childhood she was denied. William Hart, a man with scars both visible and unseen, flees the brutality of his past. Assisting Millie is equal parts kindness and apathy; he has nowhere else to go. Millie's aunt, Eleanor Abbott, lives simply on her family farm engulfed by loneliness, memory, and regret. The Bell, Unrung is a historical novel of these three wounded souls finding redemption and peace in the heart of the Great Depression.