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In the 1880s, Alta Belle, daughter of a New York merchant, is disappointed in love. Not yet twenty and against her parents' wishes, she accepts a job as a schoolmarm in Black Butte, a small coal mining town in the territory of New Mexico.Traveling there by train and stagecoach, she meets an exciting rancher that may just make her forget about her previous romantic woes, but they arrive in Black Butte late. School has started without her. Her job is gone, and soon her handsome new friend absconds with her reputation. Abandoned, Alta must make her way in a strange town where folks - especially the men - consider her a fallen woman.Born to the trade, Alta finds a job in the Mercantile and is pressed by her landlady to become a part of the community.Alta soon finds that she may just be able to build a new life after all, but can she ever forget about the rancher with the blue-green eyes and the true courtship she desires?

Cora Bailey, Alta Belle's middle-aged supervisor from Carlton & Hodges, moves West to help her run the Mercantile. Hoping to get a better job, she had not expected to find love. But now the wrong man is courting her and the right man thinks it would be wrong to cut in.

Alta Belle's ward, Ellen O'Conner, is attending the brand new University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.A schoolgirl crush on the new doctor in Black Butte keeps her from seeing that her best friend and companion, Joaquim really loves her.Will she choose the romance and excitement of a life in medicine? Or real life with Joaquim, surrounded by his huge and loving Hispanic family?

Phillip, the youngest Whitaker son, is in need of a wife, and Aunt Isobel is more than happy to help him find one in Black Butte. He prefers Appaloosa fillies until he meets his Aunt's boarder, Lulu, but will he come to realize that a second boarder, Susan, is learning how to be his perfect partner?