Sugar and Spice - Our Town Author:Dewanna Pace Valiant is the biggest little settlement in the Texas Panhandle -- and Ben McGuire is the town's most eligible bachelor. Many of Valiant's finest women have set their sights on Ben, even though he still pines for his first love, Joanna Tharp. At fifteen, she left Valiant -- and Ben -- for the more cultured East Coast. Now after seven years, Joan... more »na is returning. For Ben, it's a chance to rekindle their lost love. But the kind and beautiful woman who arrives on the train is far from the spoiled socialite that Ben remembers. In fact, she's not really Joanna at all.« less