This was recommended to me by a Goodreads friend, for reasons I can't remember and which were not apparent from the story itself. It employs two different "Outsider" tropes: the heroine, Anthea, is a fish out of water as the new schoolteacher on the Kansas frontier, freshly arrived from a more civil...
I LIKED THE ANTAGONIST PHILIP BETTER THAN I LIKED ANTHEA!!!! I hated that she wasn't a virgin.