"The Black Hills ring with a song of romance. Three women challenge the Victorian assumptions that females are meek and needy ... but will doing so deafen them to the call of romance? Emma Delaney is providing well for her family. Hurts of the past keep her from considering a future with another man. How then is she to respond when her daughter suddenly claims a passerby on a manhunt her new pa? Hannah Williams was raised to think independently and stand on her own identity. When she gets into a fix, how can she tell a rancher who is used to solving everybody's problems that she doesn't need him? Lilly Clark speaks her mind -- even to her neighbors' chagrin. When a immigrant is being persecuted for the war raging overseas, how can she stand by and not come to his rescue? Can these independent women of South Dakota surrender their desires to their heavenly Father and their hearts to the joy of romance?"--P. [4] of cover.