ABOUT
THE BOOK

No one is more surprised than Mattie Spencer herself when Luke Spencer, considered the great catch in their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later they set off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. Mattie’s only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations of frontier life and of marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make their life together on the beautiful but harsh plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he left behind, and finds love where she least expects it. Sandra Dallas is the author of  Buster Midnight’s Café and The Persian Pickle Club: she lives in Denver, Colorado.