Kingdom Come — Laura Chester

It was the worst Christmas of her life for many reasons. With little to keep her on Beacon Hill, Joanna Hawkins leaves her comfortable, false life and heads west into often threatening territory. Here she takes over her aunt's small cattle ranch, and soon rediscovers her teenage flame, Samuel Harrigan Sixkiller Mendoza, a complicated loner.

Kingdom Come is not only a contemporary western with a Traviata twist, but the story of a woman in search of her mother, while struggling to become one to her own estranged children. Fast-moving, heart-breaking fiction, Chester's best to date.