Mildred Read had a plan. It was the same plan most young women her age had in 1917, to find a man to marry and live happily ever after. But in Oreana, Idaho—a backwater town filled with ranchers, hard-luck farmers, and misfits—the pickings were slim at best. And that was before they were all called up to join the fight in France! In Mildred’s mind, the war had decided it. Doomed to the life of an old maid, she had resigned herself to a future with sixteen cats and a parakeet. That all changed when she saw a newspaper ad to write a lonely soldier. But could Mildred stoop so low to write to a total stranger? A single letter would change her life forever. The Sheep Rancher's Daughter is the inspiring true story of a prim and proper country girl and a lonely orphaned city boy finding love in the dark days of World War I.