Chapter One
The harvest fair, Calgary, Alberta 1893
"Good heavens, they're raffling off men."
With a jolt of pleasant dismay, Diana Campbell peered through the boisterous crowd to her
new friends, Winnie Gardner who was speaking, and Charlotte Ford who was smiling in
expectation at the handsome men lined up as prizes along the dirt midway. Horses neighed
beyond them; the wooden carousel creaked.
"I think the object is to win a bachelor as a prize." From twenty feet away, Diana read from the
sign above the men. An afternoon breeze, warm for September, whispered over her cheeks,
coaxing her to forget about her looming problems, to enjoy the humor here.
She and her two friends wiggled through the mob to get a closer look and identify the bachelors.
Through a shifting sea of Stetsons and bonnets, Diana focused on three shirtless men perched
above huge vats of water, a bull's eye tar ...
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