Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders

Red Saunders wanted to be good. He really did. But at sixteen, with a temper that flared faster than his fists and a restless hunger for something beyond the farm, he leaves everything he knows: his town, his family, the life that was closing in on him. The West of the early 1900s opens before him, raw and unforgiving, full of men who've made their own rules and women who might just be worth settling down for. Then he meets Plain Mary Smith, and everything changes. She's not beautiful in the way men praise. She's something more dangerous: she's honest. And suddenly Red has to figure out if he can be the man she deserves, or if his quick hands and quicker anger will always speak louder than his intentions. This is a Western about the longest journey a person can take: the one from who you are to who you might become.