PositiveBooklistFemale bonding in the nineteenth century had dangers unique to the era. Maggie’s \'unsuitable\' friendships, forged over shared hardships and the impossibility of returning home, make this exciting novel difficult to put down.
Margaret Verble
PositiveBooklistThis complicated, engrossing story of the post–Civil War West is a prequel to Verble’s Pulitzer Prize finalist, Maud’s Line (2016), but stands on its own.
