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A multigenerational love story set on a vast New Mexico cattle ranch. Two summers separated by twenty-three years. The first summer that took everything away — and the second summer that almost gave it back.
Sophie Degarrin, daughter of the ranch manager, falls in love with cowboy Adam Connor in the summer of 1946. Her parents drive him away. Twenty-three years later, her son Kyle arrives at the same ranch for a summer of wagon work — never knowing that Adam is still there, or that his mother never stopped loving him.
La Conquistadora — The Conqueror — is not any character. It is the land itself.
For readers of Lonesome Dove, The Thorn Birds, Plainsong, and East of Eden
“The bedroom door scene was more devastating than any explicit scene I’ve ever read. This novel is not perfect, but it is true, and it is beautiful.”
— Romance Reader
“The truest Western I’ve read. I would give it to every woman I know who grew up on a ranch and left.”
— Western Heritage Reader
“The final line sat me down. This novel understands what it costs to love something that was never yours.”
— Male Reader, Vietnam veteran and former BLM land manager