title: Ruby's Return
author: Grace, Terri
description: Join Ruby Murphy on her quest for true love. As a young orphan used cruelly by her aunt and cousins, she is kicked out into the street and left to fend for herself. Homeless and unable to find employment, she turns in desperation to The Western Matrimonial Agency and answers a complete stranger’s advertisement for a bride. Alone on the long trip west she wonders, will the groom turn out to be all that he appears? Will she find a love in which she’ll never be mistreated or abandoned again? Her husband to be also has a fragment of map framed above his fireplace, one that his father believed would one day lead to a lucky strike. Maybe Ruby will be the lucky strike he has been looking for all along!