โ Scribed by Sandra Brown
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Ella Barron, a single Texas mother, built a careful life running a boarding house in the Depression-era cotton South. But when a mysterious stranger takes a free room, he also takes Ellaโs careful life apart. In the tradition of Gone With the Wind comes historical romance in the Dust Bowl.Ella runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a shipโs captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose busy behavior and failure to speak elicits undesired advice from others in town. Ellaโs plate is full from sunup to sundown. When a room in her boarding house opens up, the respected town doctor brings Ella a new boarderโthe handsome and gallant Mr. David Rainwaterโbut Ella is immediately resistant to opening up her home to this mysterious stranger. Even with assurances that Mr. Rainwater is a man of impeccable character, a former cotton broker and a victim of the Great Depression, Ella stiffens at the thought of taking him in. Dr. Kincaid tells Ella in confidence that Mr. Rainwater wonโt require the room for long: he is dying. Begrudgingly, Ella accepts Mr. Rainwaterโs application to board, but she knows that something is happening; she is being swept along by an unusual series of events. Soon, this strong-minded, independent woman will realize that the living that she has eked out for herself in the small bubble of her town is about to change, whether she likes it or not... Racial tensions, the financial strain of livelihoods in cotton drying up into dust, and the threat of political instability swirl together into a tornado on the horizon. One thing is certain: the winds of change are blowing all over Texasโand through the cracks in the life that Ella Barron has painstakingly built. This is the story of a woman who takes her lifeโs circumstances in both hands, but who will be forced to reckon with the chaos of her historical circumstances..
Library : Romance
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781439192924
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