Publisher's Synopsis
Coloradoa1874 John Snoe, widower, becomes uncharacteristically depressed after his daughter marries and he is left alone again after eighteen years. John convinces himself that God has sentenced him to a miserable, solitary existence. Friends and neighbors hardly recognize the man he has become. But John is given another chance, a chance to rebuild his life, but he must open his arms and heart to another. Is it too late? Will John stubbornly ignore his last chance for happiness? Anne Soileau, Civil War widow of Baton Rouge, is invited by her sister to Trapper Valley, Colorado. Anne is not certain that she should leave all that is familiar. Should she stay on athe East Porcha of her fatheras home, where she has endured her loneliness since the death of her husband? Or should she seek a new life, a new purpose and a new love in Colorado?