December and Mae

Wyoming, 1889. Rock-faced as a quarry, hewn of hard work and Wyoming Territory s harsh environment, he, at 54, is a wealthy widower and overlord of over forty thousand acres and a copper mine. His unwed sister rules their house and, so she thinks, her brother s morals, as she attempts to set him up with various widows and spinsters. Yet underneath, Luke s loneliness for a woman of his own choosing, and no little longing for the warm, willing flesh of such, gnaws at Luke s soul if not his fevered body. Enter a runaway, a starved waif far below his social standing. She stumbles onto his spread, willing, in her innocence, to do anything he wishes...