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April 2014
On Sale: March 25, 2014
Featuring: Kirby Augustus Allen; Hetty Allen; Lamar Rusk; Garrett MacBride
449 pages
ISBN: 0758292759
EAN: 9780758292759
Kindle: B00FH1IBVW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction | Historical
Houston in the 1920s is a city of established cotton kings and newly rich oil barons, where the elite live in beaux art
mansions behind the gates of Courtlandt Place. Kirby Augustus Allen, grandson of the Allen brothers who founded Houston as
a real estate deal, is grooming his daughter Hetty to marry Lamar Rusk, scion of the Splendora oil fortune. Instead, at
the No-Tsu-Oh Carnival of 1928, beautiful, rebellious Hetty encounters a mysterious man from Montana dressed in the gear
of a wildcatter—an outsider named Garret MacBride.
Hetty is torn between Lamar's lavish courtship and her instinctive connection to Garret. As Lamar's wife she would be
guaranteed acceptance to the highest ranks of Houston society. Yet Garret, poor but powerfully ambitious, offers the
adventure she craves, with rendezvous in illicit jazz clubs and reckless nights of passion. The men's intense rivalry
extends to business, as rumors of a vast, untapped ocean of oil in East Texas spark a frenzy that can make fortunes—or
shatter lives and dreams beyond repair.
A sweeping, sumptuous debut that evokes the turmoil and drama rippling through the history of the Lone Star State,
Magnolia City is a story of love, greed, jealousy, and redemption, brought to life through the eyes of its unforgettable
heroine.
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