Susan Leigh Carlton
ASIN: B00PNXBDLO
Publisher: Susan Leigh Carlton
Pages: 125
This is a novella of approximately 33,000 words. It is a sweet, poignant love story in the western romance genre. It takes place mainly in 1880-1904 time frame. There is a single, tastefully written sexual love scene in Chapter 23, on Sarah and Trace’s wedding night.The book tells about Sarah Calhoun, a young girl on the Montana frontier, who, despite all odds, traditions and resentment of a female doctor, sets out to be one. In her senior year in high school, she develops a growing love for Trace Parsons, the son of a neighboring rancher. She pushes her love to the back burner, since there is no time for a boyfriend in her drive to become a doctor.Trace comes down with glandular fever, just prior to their scheduled entrance to college. (Glandular fever was later renamed Mononucleosis.) Not knowing about the illness, Sarah takes his absence as rejection, and pushes on toward her goal ...