Izzy Lawson has taken her last abuse.When her husband dies, she has a choice to make: go home and face the family who made her stay with the beast, or head to Belle Fourche to the only friend she has left. The reserve she's worked so hard to build crumbles in the verdant rolling hills, and in the arms of a man so different from her husband.Conrad Oleson can't read, and it's shamed him for longer than he can remember. When another teacher shows up...