Love Is a Gentle Stranger Author:June Masters Bacher, June Masters Bacher IN an adventurous saga of the American frontier, an independent young schoolteacher sets off on a dangerous quest to find a new beginning beyond the trail's end. Heartbroken and ashamed at being jilted, Chris Beth welcomes the perils of frontier life and intends to face every crisis as she has all others-alone. Then, thrown together with a small... more » band of settlers in a place ravaged by uprisings, Chinook winds, and devastating floods, she learns to lean on God and others in good times and bad. You wil laugh and cry with her as she discovers a new commandment-that never-failing love is a gentle stranger.« less