A beautiful sixteen-year-old girl from Hambry, in the Barony of Mejis - daughter of the late drover Pat Delgado, niece of the watchful and resentful Cordelia, and the unwilling subject of the arrangement her aunt has brokered to make her Mayor Thorin's gilly in exchange for the return of her family's land and horses. When she falls deeply and improbably in love with the stranger from Gilead now lodging at the Bar K, the arrangement she had reluctantly accepted becomes one she has neither the temperament nor the patience to honour quietly any longer. Brave, intelligent, and unwilling to be a small character in someone else's story, Susan is one of the most fully alive figures the series gives the reader.