Ophelia — Caroline Clemmons

Escape… A painful past… Hope for the future… Ophelia Shipp wants safety, a home, husband, and to raise a family. To achieve her goal, she travels halfway across the country to a tiny Texas town, Tarnation. What awaits her there must be better than what she left. She longs for a respectable man who will be a gentle and kind husband. Elias Kendrick had a difficult childhood but he has overcome poverty to build his empire in Tarnation. Now that he owns a successful saloon and the opera house, he is ready to marry and start a family. He's vowed his children's life will be different from his -- if only he can find the right woman. Two opposites attract -- or are they? Ophelia and Elias must learn to overlook their superficial differences to work out their chance at lasting love.