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Best-selling author Nevada Barr delights contemporary mystery fans with novels like Deep South and Blood Lure. In Bittersweet, she departs the mystery genre for a touching story of hardship, perseverance, and love in the old West.

Rancher Pax Walker thought he'd just skate through life without any more romantic entanglements, but not so fast...said five year-old daughter Polly. She wanted a mother and decided that her lovely teacher, Miss Reed, would do nicely. Katherine Reed knew from her high school days that Pax Walker was the man of her dreams, but he seemed to look everywhere but in her direction. She just wasn't the type to attract a fabulous guy like Pax. That plus her insecurity about a failed marriage keep her from moving forward.

Forced out of town by a hysterical mob, Nevada joins up with the Hacketts and quickly discovers them ill-treating a little boy who lives with them. When she escapes their clutches, she takes the child with her.