Frank Carlson Library

"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the

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After rescuing seventeen-year-old Zoe and her little brother, a mysterious bounty hunter called X, sent from the Lowlands to claim the souls of evil men, risks everything for Zoe's love.