Grand Central Publishing
November 2008
On Sale: November 13, 2008
Featuring: Hallie Wolcott; Eli Morgan
368 pages ISBN: 0446695343 EAN: 9780446695343 Trade Size Add to Wish List
The new novel from the Voice of America's Heartland, Dorothy
Garlock.
In l890 two friends, middle-aged
Pearl and pretty, young schoolteacher Hallie, have just
about decided to leave the rough Western town of Whiskey
Bend, where both are disillusioned with the way they have
been treated. The final straw comes when they witness their
friend Mary being assaulted in the street by her stepbrother
Chester and no one steps forward to help her. They decide to
leave and take Mary with them. They go out to the shack
where Chester and Mary live to get her, but when Chester
attacks them, Pearl shoots him in the leg. He screams after
the three that he will follow them wherever they go.
Desperately they drive away in an open wagon seeking a new
life and safety. One night along the way they are caught in
a violent storm and Mary nearly drowns in a roiling river.
She is saved by a daring young rancher who brings them back
to his home to stay until Mary recovers. The rancher has
troubles of his own. He is condemned by his mother for
having left his father to run the ranch alone years earlier.
He is searching for the murderer of his younger brother. And
someone now is trying to kill him. Attracted to him and
grateful, Hallie vows to help him.
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