The Twelve Mile School

A schoolteacher finds love, loss, and happiness in West Texas.

Val Verde County, Texas, 1916

Weary of her family's relentless pursuit of a suitable husband for her, twenty-two-year-old Ester Hammon responds to an advertisement seeking a teacher for Twelve Mile School, a small county school far away from her overprotective Dallas family. But nothing prepared her for what she faced when stepping off the train in the small, dusty town of Del Rio, Texas.

Living with a ranching family three miles ...