Canyon of Courage — Ethel Lockwood

It had been three years since Janet had seen Mervin Moore, who had been a college athletic hero when she had fallen in love with him and promised to be faithful. Yet she did not hesitate, when he asked her to come to him at Blanford Castle, to make the long trip to join him in Texas. It was only when she saw how he had changed and met the rather frightening woman who appeared to have mesmerized him that she began to question her own impetuosity, and indeed her common sense.