Cowboys and Kisses

Shunned by her family, a girl is sent west on a one-way stage ticket. Penniless in Long Grass, Wyoming, she takes up the only profession open to her. Years later she encounters the cowboy she can love, and her first taste of pleasure - and happiness.

Cowboys, however, are born to wander, and their kisses are as brief as the lives of young women without family or means. Accepting that her days will be numbered too few, Darlin' clings to her scribblings for escape. Until she recognizes her own truth and a chance for love in the longing gaze of a townswoman.

Two determined women in a hostile world save themselves — and each other — in a lyric, sensual love story of the American West as only Karin Kallmaker can tell.