Buscar
No Place for Naked Dowsers
Cód:
491_9780983119746
NO PLACE FOR NAKED DOWSERS: Even after Civil Wardecimated Ella Corrigans revered Georgia plantation, and post-war efforts to revitalize it met withone setback after another, she never dreamed that her new husband, Gentry Garland, would want toleave it all behind and take her and their son to his wild Texas ranch lands. She refuses to go, butGentry does something that will give her no choice-something that, overnight, turns her love for himinto a bitter obsession for revenge.Ella finds Texas in the midst of a killer drought and filled with strange characters that eitherterrify or revolt her. Among them are the old ex Texas Ranger, foul-mouthed, irreverent, andprofessed woman hater, Hempstead Grouse; twelve year-old Molly Barton, a victim of incest andignorance; young Dan Meaney, who would have looked like an innocent schoolboy to Ella upontheir first meeting ... if the two 44 colts on his thin hips hadnt contradicted every charitablethought she tried to have of the boy. In Texas, Ella sees her and Gentrys old antagonist, TimonPledger, in a way shed never dreamed anyone would ever see the shy, fallen preacher from backhome in Savannah-naked as a jaybird, and with a dowser stick clamped to his exposed groin.In constant longing for her familys ancestral plantation, Ella devises a plan to return theresomeday and reclaim her property; thereby, the wedge between her and Gentry thickens ...threatening the love that both had thought would last forever.Will Gentrys vast herds of Longhorn cattle be the answer to his money problems or will his needto save his land drive him to a danger that will force Ella to a decision that could have disastrousconsequences for them both ...
Veja mais