Our Darling

Our Darling is a novel by D. A. Brockett, who is also credited as Debbie A. Brockett. The publisher's old online store listed it under her name and described her as an award-winning author giving her conclusions about why a child's body was left in a casket in a cave along the Colorado River.

A Google Books summary adds that the story begins in 1971, when three brothers on Christmas break find a baby buried in a cave above the Gunnison River. The only clue is a metal plate reading Our Darling. The summary says the novel rests on a real event and is set in Grand Junction, Colorado, in the 1920s, in a frontier town caught between progress and resistance to change.

Google Books lists the book as published by Western Reflections Publishing Company in 2004, at 182 pages, under ISBN 9781890437893. The library also carries Brockett's other novel, Stained Glass Rose, which starts from a different true Grand Junction story.

This is a novel for readers of Colorado Western Slope history who like fiction built on a real mystery. It suits people who know Grand Junction and the Gunnison and Colorado rivers, and book groups that enjoy comparing a story with the real event behind it.