A Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons
A Virtuous Woman – Kaye Gibbons Like New Condition Paperback 165 pages Vintage Books 1990 Booko description: When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much