Mona H. (MoMoH) reviewed on 6/17/2006 + 31 more book reviews

Ruby Torvald has turned Dove House, the scandalous inheritance her father left to her and her sister, into a respectable establishment. Her newest boarder is Pearl Hossfuss, a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher from Chicago. Hiding scars within and without, Pearl has given up hope that any man would want to marry her. Her father has his own ideas, insisting she marry his clerk, a widower with 5 children.
So Pearl flees to Dakota Territory in response to an ad requesting a teacher for the town of Little Missouri.She finds teaching. . . .
I liked this book very much.

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