Far away from the city of his birth, in a frontier town on the edge of tribal wilderness, a doctor tries to resolve the seemingly unreconcilable demands of his public career and his personal feelings. He believes his exile her to be temporary, and youthful memories of the distant city torment him with an unbearable sense of loss. Yet he has grown to love a fellow exile, a woman of fierce independence and strong will, who belongs by nature to the warmth and chaos of the frontier? But, during a summer of drought and disease, the desert erupts into savagery and he is at last confronted by the choice of returning to the city or of remaining with her.
- ISBN10 0060925086
- ISBN13 9780060925086
- Publish Date 1 October 1994 (first published 16 September 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harper Perennial
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 210
- Language English