Mountains of Love — Donna Winters

For all of her twenty-three years, Cedena Rossier has led a sheltered life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. And then she goes to the Fair. The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opens up a fascinating world of excitement and friendships that she is determined to explore. But her newfound freedom comes at a high cost: Her mother disowns her.To make matters worse, the Panic of 1893 causes Cedena's family to be on the verge of bankruptcy. Unwanted by her mother and unwilling to burden her aunt and uncle, Cedena heads west to become a Harvey girl-one of an elite group of trained waitresses who serve railroad passengers at restaurants throughout the West. While she enjoys the economic security her work provides, when an old suitor appears, will she be willing to trade her independence for true love?Mountains of Love takes readers on a cross-country tour of late Victorian America from Ferris wheel rides to train robberies. Every page captures a rapidly changing time when women were forging their way into the workforce and Americans were spreading across the continent. But it also explores the deepest territories of the human heart.In these pages, Donna Winters, long known for her Great Lakes Romances, now takes her genre westward with characters you'll never forget.