Choloma Moon

Cholama Moon Homesteaders struggle to establish ranches in Central California in the 1870s, amid earthquakes, drought, banditos, remoteness and human failing. Young Virginia Nugent's privileged life ends with the death of her mother and her father's guilt-ridden descent into addiction. She is conflicted in her love of the ranch and her desire to escape until an old cowhand's loyalty and a Southerner friend of her late mother offer hope that she can change her destiny.