A Roof and a Pig: Just the Treatment She Needs for a Broken Heart. Seeking relief from her disastrous marriage, a high school biology teacher returns to Shelter Creek for the summer to help her grandmother through chemo. She is surprised by a roofer with stamina through Texas heat and life's hard spots. Her path away from bitterness involves the family guard-pig and teaching first grade. Painful discoveries of her husband's duplicity develop into danger. Murder is so much quicker than divorce. As a wife betrayed and dumped by her husband, she could either lock herself away from further hurt or forgive and start over. Was there a man alive worth the investment?