Darlin'

In this sequel to Simply, Perfectly Grand, Pamela Borden Heckert continues her biographical novel imagining the later life of Jennie Selover, born near Cleveland, Ohio in 1840.
In 1894, after a daring Utah divorce and expeditious marriage in New York City, Jennie, now Mrs. Frank Brown, leaves the East with her talented, entrepreneurial husband. During their first trip to the remote mountains of Idaho, she is haunted by thoughts of Frank's history there with another woman. As he manages multiple mining operations out west, Jennie is confronted with the rigors of living in rugged places. As they grow older, she yearns to settle down with him but he unapologetically pursues his itinerant lifestyle as a mining engineer.
After a long marriage to a quiet dentist, can Jennie come to terms with Frank's past and the demands of his active career? Will she learn to appreciate the beauty and challenges of living at the edge of civilization? Does she find her place out west after living in the East most of her life? Most important to her, will she ever enjoy a comfortable home with the man she loves?
With an occasional glimpse into New York City's Gilded Age, Heckert takes the reader back to 1890s Salt Lake City, the increasingly secular capital of Utah Territory, to the wilds of Idaho's gold, silver, and copper mining country, as well as to a remote missionary outpost and mining camp in Alaska Territory. Join Jennie on her late-in-life journey as she experiences the contrasting cultures of modern cities and primitive villages at the turn of the 20th century.