Ophelia — Charlene Raddon

Ophelia never expected her first love, a man named Deuce, to up and vanish. Heartbroken, she enters into a loveless marriage with Mortimer Crane. After two decades of his infidelity and neglect, she has had enough. Worse, she learns he's put his mine -- and the town that grew up around it --in her name, taking the profits for his own. Determined to end her marriage and start a new life, she moves to Wildcat Ridge to claim her property.There, she finds Deuces, now known as Brody Duvall, and old sparks rekindle. But Mortimer has lethal plans of his own. Can Ophelia and Brody defy him and create a new life together? Or will Mortimer ruin everything... again?