The Love Letter — Shelley Galloway

Strange things are afoot in the small mining town of Rocky River, Colorado during the spring of 1890. Millicent Drovers' invitation to a picnic has fallen into the wrong hands. Marshall Bond, the local saloon owner, receives a mysterious letter and believes he has a secret admirer.

Edmund Baxter, a filthy miner who recently struck it rich, has decided to become respectable, and a whole host of women have marriage on their minds. What's a town to do when it suddenly finds itself embroiled in a strange case of spring fever?

Pick two people to root for and hope for the best, of course. Too bad nobody told Millicent and Marshall that they were the chosen ones! Now this couple needs to rewrite Millicent's engagement calendar, find time to picnic with a dozen women, sidestep a whole betting pool -- and even write another love letter or two.

Yes, they're about to head for some rough times in Rocky River until summer comes, the mystery of the love letter is solved, and everything is right with the world again.