Blessings is a powerful new novel by the bestselling author of Black and Blue, One True Thing and Object Lessons. The story begins when a teenage couple drives up at night (headlights out) to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing. They leave a box and drive away and then instantly the world of Blessings is changed forever. Skip Cuddy (caretaker of the estate) finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her.