Home to go home to -- Rose's daddy -- Pearl Hart -- Padre -- Sermon -- Hartry -- Daughter Pearl -- Quechan -- At the touch of the hat -- Breach.
Summary
Impulsively marrying the son of a local rancher to escape her divorced parents, seventeen-year-old Katherine goes to live in her new husband's Arizona desert adobe house but is rapidly disenchanted by his cold heart, a situation that is further tested bya dangerous drought.