The listening sky

By Dorothy Garlock

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Women pioneers, Fiction, romance, general

Description: In the 1880s, Jane Love comes to Timbertown, Wyoming to escape her heritage and begin a new job and an independent new life. But upon her arrival, she discovers that she and 19 other women were recruited, not to work, but to become wives of lumberjacks. Jane is appalled by the arrangement but agrees to a mock marriage with the town's owner.