Description Clara, 14, and Geneva, 16, are close friends until Geneva secretly marries Clara's widowed father.
Feeling betrayed by her pa and a girl she idolizes, Clara wants nothing to do with her new young stepmother.
Geneva retaliates, beginning a clash of wills that lasts from 1884 to the flu epidemic of 1918.
Years go by without them speaking to one another.
Geneva, bolder of the two, lives a life of ease in elegant homes with piped water and domestic help.
She shops for the latest in women's fashions and plays pinochle with lady friends.
For spite, Clara marries a handsome cowboy Geneva fancies, but ends up living in a freezing cold cabin and a house infested with bugs.
She takes in ironing and feeds miners to make ends meet, discovering love and purpose in the process.
It takes a tragedy to bring her and her family together again.
Can she and Geneva see this as an opportunity to put aside the past? Can they salvage a relationship that was once the center of their world?.
Wild Rose Press Never done, paperback/ginger dehlinger
