B M Bower

Lonesome Land B M Bower

Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower

Valeria had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, expecting a future full of companionship and invigorating freedom, lodges with large fireplaces and bearskin rugs, manageable cattle and elegant horses and dazzling sunrises. If Val had known what she really was waiting for, she just wouldn't have gotten off the train. Oh, the country was impressive, but it could be cruel in the winter and lonely for a woman stranded on a ranch miles from the nearest neighbor. Val is thrown into circumstances that test her character, strength and sanity. Married to an alcoholic, she is forced to revise her back-East notions of men and women, duty and the West itself. She goes from romanticization to "blind and unreasonable terror of the desert land" to decisive action.