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?