A restless girl from a frontier town leaves her family and Mexican boyfriend to work for a handsome new governor in New Mexico in 1912.

Grace Shockey, a spoiled Texas girl, finds herself a reluctant inhabitant of a mining town in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before long, however, she feels the enfolding warmth of new friends--and a handsome young miner.

Beautiful Lorena Rogers has it all: a successful husband, a lovely home, and professional security. To escape her empty existence, she returns to the ranch on the Rio Grande River where she was born in order to care for her terminally ill mother and to resolve the frustrations in her life.

Fremont F. Ellis, a famous landscape painter, was born in Virginia City, Montana in 1897. His father was a nomadic dentist and theater operator who traveled from the bustling gold towns of the American West to the metropolitan cities of the east. Ellis began painting at about twelve years of age although he had little art instruction or formal education of any kind. He had his first art showing in El Paso, Texas while still in his teens and was immediately praised for his work. However, his father thought he should have a profession along with his art work, so he studied optometry and had his...

In this sequel to "Girl of the Manzanos," Mardee Spencer has grown up and is married to a lawyer, who is serving his country on the battle fields of France in World War I. Mardee helps keep his law office going while he is away and is earning her own law degree even though the legal profession is reserved for only men in that era.