It’s 1962, and Dusty Fairchild, daughter of a self-made millionaire and oilman, wants to go to college. Instead she is sent to a private finishing school in East Texas. Although she’s never wanted for material possessions, Dusty longs for independence and adventure. The only upside to attending Miss Fontaine’s is having her cousin and best childhood friend, Paisley, join her. Paisley has traveled the country with her bohemian mother, but she dreams of putting down roots and living a settled life. At Miss Fontaine’s, their loyalty to each other binds them, but when they fall in love with the same handsome young man, their relationship teeters on shaky ground. Only after a tragic accident do they learn where their true hearts-and dreams-lie.

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Carla Stewart is a country girl living in a mid-sized city with her engineering husband. She worked as a registered nurse off and on through the years, but primarily stayed home with four rambunctious boys and dreamed of the day she could write the novels she loved to read. When their youngest son was in high school, she quit her job as nursing instructor and settled in to pen her first novel.

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