Ingrid by Miriam Minger

After following her sister to Walker Creek, Texas, Ingrid Hagen accepts a position as a teacher’s assistant only to find herself in charge of the schoolhouse a week later. She’s never taught by herself before and already she must discipline one unruly boy. Things go from bad to worse when Sheriff Joshua Logan appears in her classroom and demands to know if she took a rod to his son. She’s never struck any child before! How could he accuse her of such a terrible thing?