WYOMING STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS FICTION AWARD winner KIRKUS INDIE NEW AND NOTABLE From opposite sides of an ocean, two people wounded by the Great War are fated to meet and try to rebuild their lives. First a war bride. Francesca Sittoni was brought against her will to America by the husband she never loved. Now she finds herself alone - widowed, pregnant, and with a small daughter to support. Terrified of being deported back to the impoverished Tyrolean mountain region of her birth, Francesca answers an ad placed by Wyoming rancher and former doughboy Kent Reed. Then a...

At the turn of a new century, changes unimagined are about to unfold. THE WOMAN: Kidnapped by the Apaches, a Mexican woman learns the healing arts. Stolen by the Utes, she is sold and traded until she ends up with the Piikani. All she has left are her skills-and her honor. What price will she pay to ensure a lasting place among the People? THE MAN: Raised in a London charitable school, a young man at the end of the third of a seven year term of indenture to the Hudson's Bay Company is sent to the Rocky Mountains to live among the Piikani for the winter to learn their language and to foster...

Can an angel survive Hell on Wheels? Raised according to strict moral tenets, 22-year-old Kit Calhoun's rigid ideas of decency are stretched to the limit when she finds herself in charge of four New York City orphans in the very heart of rip-roaring Hell on Wheels. Irish immigrant Patrick Kelley first spies Kit in Julesburg, pursues her to Cheyenne, but must still convince her that the best thing to do is to leave behind everything they thought they knew before and learn to forge new lives in the raw American West. Alethea Williams is the author of Willow Vale, the story of a Tyrolean...