In Book 1, Sean Thomas arrives in southwestern Montana that July of 1864 with his sights on the gold streams that run along Virginia City. But in the dining hall, when Mandy plays her song, a glance sparks an interest just enough to begin a special relationship that should have ended, happily. In this new western frontier town, quick tempers, loaded guns, and questionable vigilante lawmen, leave behind shaky ground, broken hearts, and other surprises, too. As Sean struggles to stay alive, Mandy struggles to keep the memory of him alive. But when familial forces threaten to erase every trace of him, she turns to an unlikely ally for hope. In the words of Mandy's song, it's a story of love, sadness, excitement, and courage, with life's lesson, the most truthful being 'life's not fair'. And despite this, one still has in his heart, the ability to FORGIVE. **************************************** 'Montana Son' is written like a Laura Ingalls-Wilder novel, but with less than perfect characters filling the pages, in towns hindered by more than just God-awful weather and incurable disease. It's chock-full of idioms, cowboy expressions, and historical facts.