Heart of the Hills
Shelly Ritthaler
Paperback
(Avon Books, Dec. 1, 1996)
Traveling west in 1878 to help her pregnant aunt, sixteen-year-old Carrie Miller longs to return to her prosperous St. Louis fiance+a7 and is disillusioned by the greed and wilderness she encounters, until she finds true love with a local young man. Original.