Lucy is living in Boston with her distant husband. He is completely under the thumb of his brother who decides to sell their farm and head west to California. Lucy's choice is to leave her husband and go back and live with her unbearable stepmother or pack up and head west. Lucy loves her husband's son from his first marriage and decides to stay with him.
One of the guides for the wagon train is Clint, a rough around the edges man who is attracted to the married Lucy. Lucy feels the attraction as well and does her best to hide it. Unfortunately there are a few people that seem to pick up on it anyway.
An accident kills her husband and leaves Lucy with yet another choice. Will she leave Noah, her stepson, and head back east? Her husband's brother claims that since she is only his stepmother, she has no claim on him and he will stay with his uncle. His uncle is a cruel, unhappy man who can preach nothing but fire and brimstone. Leaving would also separate Lucy from Clint.
I made it to 43% and there it was. The sex scene. Once the character of Clint was introduced, there was some language, so I had some inkling that the sex could be on the way. I wasn't quite sure how a crowded, no privacy place like the wagon train would be able to accommodate that, but lo and behold, there was magically a rainy day where everyone stayed inside. I found this odd, since it was repeatedly mentioned that there is nowhere to hide without someone seeing something.
Beyond the aspects that offend my prudish nature, the writing was good, yet depressing. Understanding that traveling the trail to the west was hardly an easy journey, I knew that it wasn't going to be a totally uplifting story. It's just not my kind of book.
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