Abigail Grimston and her son, Wyatt, live alone on a ranch in 1880. They have no neighbors and town is a half-day's wagon ride away, so one would expect them to be living a lonely life. Not so. Abigail and her fourteen-year-old son don't need anyone else. They have each other. Everything is perfect until the day Abigail catches Wyatt doing the unthinkable. The decision she makes changes their lives forever.
Fifteen-year-old Toby was very happy living alone with his mother after his dad left them. He felt conflicted, and even ashamed, when the raging hormones of youth made his feelings for her more... complicated. Then she announced that she was going on a date.
Conversely from many other stories about the relationship between mother and her sons mine is a true one. All facts here are true, just names and some situations were changed to protect the people involved, most of them still alive