Beyond the desert sands
(Book)

After living an opulent life with her aunt for the last few years, the last thing Isabella Garcia wants is to have to celebrate Christmas in Silver Veil, New Mexico, the small silver-mining town her father and mother founded in the desert. She'd rather stay in California with the handsome Diego Morales who is courting her. Isabella is further miffed to have to bear the company of Aaron Bailey, a businessman with the Santa Fe Railroad, whom her father has sent to escort her safely home. Aaron finds Isabella spoiled, and she finds him judgmental. Isabella arrives to see how much the town of Silver Veil has grown-- and how fragile her father's health has become. Then Diego shows up with news that her aunt has died. Faced with all these changes, she struggles to sort through her future and who she wants to be. -- adapted from back cover