How much can a single individual do to change the essential nature of a town? The young heroine of Cora Marsland's The Angel of the Gila does everything she can to bring health, happiness, and strong values to a recently settled community in rural Arizona. She spends her days tirelessly engaged in service, teaching children and adults, nursing the sick back to health, imparting spiritual wisdom -- and falling in love. Will she find a way to balance her work in the community with her own contentment?