Chapter Five
Amelia planted the garden that spring with special care. It was a welcome solace. With her hands in the rich, dark, loamy earth her body and soul seemed to relax and she nurtured a sense of peace. She had her hopes when Christian’s life took its sudden turn that hers too would alter as she often daydreamed about it changing. But with Johanna’s arrival nothing was the same anymore. Even Lottie Desmond had not upset Great Bear Lodge as much as this devilish wind that rode into their lives as forcefully as the thundering locomotive that brought her west.
Johanna Remington was not the same girl that left her father’s ranch three years before. Indeed, she wasn’t a girl at all, but a woman of nearly twenty-two, proud, haughty and beautiful, with a mane of auburn hair that under th
