Omaha's bell

by Penny Hayes

Alone and heartbroken in the wilderness that was 19th century Omaha, Keeley Delaney yearned for a new life. What she found was a love as vast and untamed as the windswept Nebraska plains. Still reeling from the tragic death of her parents and brother, farmer Keeley Delaney seems condemned to a life of hardship and grief. Now totally alone, she supplements her meager income by selling vegetables to the mocking soldiers at nearby forts. Despite her aching loneliness, Keeley shuns the mean-spirited Omaha townsfolk, whose lack on compassion for her and her family has left her with only one desire-- to save enough money to escape this heartless place forever. Only one desire, that is, until she meets the town's newest addition-- beautiful Englishwoman Prudence Jane Morris.