Lonesome Land

Pioneering Western writer Bertha Muzzy Bower was herself the wife of a Montana rancher for a time, so she brings a wealth of personal experience and psychological insight to this gripping narrative that follows protagonist Valeria as she enters into marriage and struggles with the often-harsh reality of rural life. Val is cast into circumstances that test her temper, strength, and sanity.

• One of her few contacts with the outside world is a friend of her husbands whom she despises.
• Their relationship gradually changes as her husbands true character is slowly revealed to her.
• Kent watches Val very closely as she struggles with poverty and a drunken husband.
• He knows Val is worthy of more than her husband can give.
• Is he the man to do it?