Gallant Bride — Jane Peart

Would she ever be accepted as a wife....as a Montrose...as a woman?

It is a long journey from Blythe Dorman's ranch home in Lucas Valley, California, to the ancestral Virginia mansion of her new husband, Malcolm Montrose. There are mountains of despair and disappointment, the barrier of too many years between them, and the vast chasm of background and breeding. Buoyed by an almost childlike optimism, Blythe meets her future head-on, undaunted by the iron will of her invalid mother-in-law, Malcolm's mysterious disappearances, and the decline of the once prosperous plantation. But it is Roderick Cameron who will test her faith most severely. For it is he to whom she is irresistibly drawn - Rod, who offers the easy camaraderie and understanding her bewildered heart is seeking. Caught up in a maelstrom of changing fortunes and thwarted dreams, Blythe hovers on the brink of a perilous precipice. Will she yield to the innocent charms of her husband's boyhood friend, or to the still, small voice within?