Sugar and Spice

There is a place that lives within every heart...a special place where only love can bloom. And from the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find their home--and where true love is always right around the comer... Valiant is the biggest little settlement in the Texas Panhandle--and Ben McGuire is the town's most eligible bachelor. Many of Valiant's finest women have set their sights on Ben, even though he still pines for his first love, Joanna Tharp. At fifteen, she left Valiant and Ben--for the more cultured East Coast. Now after seven years, Joanna is returning. For Ben, it's a chance to rekindle their lost love. But the kind and beautiful woman who arrives on the train is far from the spoiled socialite that Ben remembers. In fact, she's not really Joanna at all ...