num_pages: 352
description: Dowryless and desperate Tressa Neill applies to the inaugural class of Wyatt Herdsman School in Barnett Kansas in 1888. The school's one-of-a-kind program teaches young women from the East the skills needed to become a rancher--or the wife of one. Shy and small for her twenty-two years Tressa is convinced she'll never have what it takes to survive Hattie Wyatt's hands-on instruction in skills such as milking a cow branding a calf riding a horse and cooking up a mess of grub for hungry ranch hands. But what other options does she have?Abel Samms wants nothing to do with the group of potential brides his neighbor brought to town. He was smitten with an eastern girl once--and he got his heart broken. But there's something about quiet Tressa and her bumbling ways that makes him take notice. When Tressa's life is endangered will Abel risk his own life--and his heart--to help this eastern girl?
language: English
title: A Hopeful Heart
publisher: Bethany House Publishers