Over Paradise Ridge by Maria Thompson Daviess, Fiction, Classics, Literary (Paperback)

Nobody knows what starts the sap running along the twigs of a very young, tender and springlike woman's nature. In Betty's case, it is Samuel Foster Crittenden -- even though she hardly realizes it. She leaves America for a traipse across Europe, to take in the sights, and sends him a postcard now and then . . .

And then when she returns home, she finds him in dirty overalls -- for Sam has become a farmer!

"You can seal friends up in your heart and forget about them -- and when you take them out they are perfectly fresh and good," Betty says to herself. "But they may have changed flavor!"

A romance from a quieter time, when airplanes were new and the divide between city and country was only beginning to widen, Maria Thompson Daviess' "Over Paradise Ridge" tells the tale of a young woman learning to trust her heart, and to accept the twists and turns of unexpected fate.