FROM CELIA HAYES:  Sunset & Steel Rails.

What would move a proper, respectable young lady of Boston to take the desperate step of signing up to work in a railroad concession restaurant, in an age when proper, respectable young ladies just did not do that sort of thing?

Sophia Brewer thought she had her life mapped out in front of her, until a certain morning in the spring of 1884 when suddenly, everything changed. Many another young lady might have given way, done as she was told by her guardian, and her doctor … but Sophia had a rebellious spirit, and a sense of adventure … which carried her west to a new life, and an unexpected romance.