Where the Chalk Meets the Dust: A Western Romance

She came west to teach.

She did not expect the land to teach her in return.

Fresh from Mrs. Hudson's Finishing School in Virginia, Francis Flag accepts a position few young women would consider-schoolteacher on a remote Texas cattle ranch, far from towns, comforts, and certainty. With proper training, quiet resolve, and a single letter of employment, she steps off the train into a country ruled by dust, distance, and hard-earned trust.

The ranch belongs to Lance Ferguson, a reserved cattleman ...