Valley of Lagoons

the long version

She couldn't let her mother be so foolish Gayna was shocked when her mother announced suddenly that she was remarrying. Hadn't her father's desertion proved that men were not to be trusted? But her arguments fell on deaf ears, and instead she incited the anger of Ford Montgomery, who saw her objections as an insult to his father--and himself. "It's your feelings you're concerned about, not your mother's," he scoffed nastily. Gayna couldn't think why his opinion mattered....