On the Edge of Town - Christel Detsch

Nothing ever happens in Junction City, a small, forgotten town on the Nebraska prairie, until Michael Barron arrives with six year-old Emma. He thought they had left the past behind when they move into an old Victorian house on the outskirts of town. It is not what he expected. \A large, gray house...stood all by itself on the grassy plain, lonely and austere. There was no picket fence, no flowers. Only a few straggly bushes hunkered down in the wind. An old trail with faint tire tracks meandered..