The mule takes the safest way down. A heart is allowed to change its mind.
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New Mexico, 1912. A small settlement at the bottom of a canyon still receives its teachers, callers and wedding guests by pack trail. The trip takes long enough for a passenger to reconsider what waits below. Four courtships begin on that descent, each between adults who have a good reason to want a different life from the one the valley expects.
Ada has promised her pupils a Monday start and herself a dignified arrival. Halfway down the canyon she wants to walk the rest of the trail with her eyes shut. Luis offers to go more slowly, and does not tell a single person why. The free companion novella is The Mule Who Carried Lilies.
A mule carries a private offering of flowers. A new teacher chooses her pace, a bell finds its way back to a family, music changes an old goodbye at the ford and the final bride rides home to give her answer herself.
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Pete thinks the lilies are for a funeral. Helen means to leave them on her mother’s grave and take one home for the first time. He makes a tall wooden frame to keep every petal safe on the way down.
Ada has promised her pupils a Monday start and herself a dignified arrival. Halfway down the canyon she wants to walk the rest of the trail with her eyes shut. Luis offers to go more slowly, and does not tell a single person why.
A little bell in Nora’s saddlebag rings at the worst possible times. Felix knows the sound because it used to hang over his grandmother’s door. Nora offers to return it as soon as he can tell her why he never went back.
Years ago Alma played Benicio a tune while they waited for the ford to fall. He rode away before the final phrase. Now he is carrying her fiddle case down the trail and she is determined to learn whether he remembers the end.
Clara’s intended has announced the wedding before she has agreed to it. Owen offers to turn the mule around. She means to reach the settlement, tell the truth in her own voice, and decide who may ride beside her afterward.
The packer who carried the lilies recommends a quiet mount for the schoolteacher’s first trip down in Book 1.
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