title: Abigail
author: McDaniel, Sylvia
description: In New Hope, Texas women like children, are to be seen and not heard. Their only job in life is to marry, procreate, and be a loyal, obedient wife. Thus the shortage of available women. Until, Abigail Vanderhooten is unexpectedly called home, her head filled with ideas of changing the world where a woman can own a business and have a bank account. This little rebel is determined to bring the town’s laws into the nineteenth century, even if it means sacrificing her reputation. Jack Turner likes being the mayor in a small, quiet western town where the biggest rabble rousers are cowboys on Saturday night. Everything is about to change when Abigail Vanderhooten, a tiny sprite of a woman returns to town, ready to take on the local laws. While trying to keep the town from splitting apart, he’s surprised how her strong spirit captivates him. And he’s shocked when she manages to worm her way into his bachelor heart, with her controversial ideas of women earning a living the same as a man. With a woman’s revolution brewing, will Jack be forced to run her out of town, before he has a chance to convey how she’s changed him? Or will Abigail give up on New Hope, Texas and return to Boston? Can love blossom and change a woman and a man with different ideals?