Read around 1995-2002I think it was based around the Eastern part of the U.S. (VA?)Book cover had a house and possibly a fox ? I think it had something to do with horses and hounds/fox hunting...Heroine witnesses a crime (not sure what) and goes blind from the trauma. Her husband sends her to a type of institution where she is medicated. She fakes taking the medication and ends up escaping.SPOILERSHas a daughter; doesn't know she's from true (first?) loveHer current husband is hiding things and is not a good person...Remember something about horses, a farm and sex in the barn?Kind of like a Nora Roberts type book but I can't find it.
In Fox River, Emilie Richards has created a powerful, multilayered story of a troubled family - and the power of truth. Julia Warwick grew up amid wealth and privilege, the beautiful daughter of a legendary Virginia hunt master. A talented artist, Julia is devastated when she loses her sight after a fall from a horse - but that loss is only the beginning. When doctors say  In Fox River, Emilie Richards has created a powerful, multilayered story of a troubled family - and the power of truth. Julia Warwick grew up amid wealth and privilege, the beautiful daughter of a legendary Virginia hunt master. A talented artist, Julia is devastated when she loses her sight after a fall from a horse - but that loss is only the beginning. When doctors say her blindness has no physical cause, her husband commits her to a clinic where she's kept a virtual prisoner - until her mother brings her back to her childhood home, along with Julia's daughter, nine-year-old Callie. But rest alone cannot heal Julia. Trapped in a darkened world and captivated by her mother's unpublished novel, "Fox River," she is beginning to see some devastating truths, both past and present - truths about her husband, her family, and a murder case from years ago in which justice went astray and lovers were torn apart. Only one question remains: Will the light of truth be strong enough to restore all that Julia has lost - her sight, her life, and her forsaken love? ...more