Becoming Lucy by Martha Rogers

Seventeen-year-old Lucinda Bishop arrives in Oklahoma to live with her aunt and uncle after her parents die. Ranch life is a real change from Boston but she is determined, with God's help, to adjust to ranch life. Also on the ranch is drifter Jake Starnes, running from the past. When the two are attracted to each other, Jake makes a double decision to embrace Christianity and go back to Texas to turn himself in for murder. Will Jake return? Will Lucinda have faith that God's will might be done? Will justice reign? A good story exploring the true meaning of love and forgiveness.