Except for the way they loved each other, they were just ordinary, everyday folks. Just ordinary. 1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year's time she's fallen in love-both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the...

A cozy and magical novel about a small, turn of the century Wyoming town where the arrival of a modern brash stranger, Madeline Drake, upends the tranquility of the community and wrenches open the lives of the town's spinster postmistress, Parathinia Minch, and Savannah Clarke, a starchy widow with dark secrets.--Publisher.