The release date for the English version of 'The Diary of Mattie Spenser' by
Sandra Dallas is May 1998. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
When Mattie Spenser receives a marriage proposal from Luke Spenser, the local hotshot in their little Iowan community, she is taken aback beyond belief. They leave in a covered wagon less than a month later to establish a home on the frontier of Colorado. The only things keeping Mattie company are her rather enigmatic spouse and her personal notebook, in which she documents the pleasures and annoyances of both frontier life and her recent marriage to a charming but aloof stranger. Mattie discovers some painful realities about her husband and the girl he left behind as she and Luke forge a life together on the rough but beautiful plains. She also finds love in unexpected places. An amazing tale of adversity, camaraderie, and survival, it is dramatic and gripping.