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TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving down Interstate 20 on her way to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation. But her itinerary is rewritten when she hears on the radio that the teenage daughter of well-known Fort Worth multimillionaire Russell Dendy has been kidnapped...
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Oklahoma, 1932. Trouble seemed to be rolling up like the dust on the dry yellow horizon beyond Henry Ann's farm. Her father was dead and her two rebellious half-siblings were now her responsibility. Then Tom Dolan, a new neighbor, came into her life bringing both a ray of hope and burdens of his own. It would take a tragedy before they could fully love each other, for Tom was an innocent man suspected of murder.
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Sandra Brown began her writing career in 1980. After selling her first book, she wrote a succession of romance novels under several pseudonyms, most of which remain in print. She has become one of the country's most popular novelists, earning the notice of Hollywood and of the critics. More than 60 of her books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. There are eighty million copies of her books in print, and her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Prior to writing, she worked in commercial television as an on-air personality for PM Magazine and local news in Dallas. The parents of two, she and her husband now divide their time between homes in Texas and South Carolina.
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Dorothy Garlock is a Texas native living in Clear Lake, Iowa, who quit her job as a newspaper columnist and reporter at the age of 49 to write novels. She entered her first novel in a contest and lost, but she sold the book. Now, over twenty years later, she has millions of copies in print and has had her work translated into 18 languages.
So many of her more than 40 books are set in the Old West that Dorothy Garlock has come to be classified as a Western Romance writer. She is a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame. Popular titles include Almost Eden, The Listening Sky, and Larkspur. With Hope is a gritty, unsentimental romance set in the Great Depression.
Dorothy Garlock also writes under the names Dorothy Glenn, Dorothy Philips and Johanna Phillips.
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Reviews (7)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Workaholic Dallas TV reporter Tiel McCoy thought she would take a well-earned vacation, but while driving to a secluded condo in New Mexico, she hears a radio report that changes her plans. Teenager Sabra Dendy, only daughter of Fort Worth multimillionaire Russ Dendy, has been kidnapped. Soon Tiel learns that Sabra, who's pregnant, has run away with her boyfriend, Ronnie Davison. Smelling a story, Tiel heads for the remote town of Hera to interview Ronnie's father, thinking the couple might go there for help. But when she stops at a convenience store for directions, Tiel encounters Ronnie and Sabra bungling a hold-up attempt. As Sabra goes into labor, Ronnie takes everyone in the store hostage, and Tiel and a handsome cowboy who seems to know a lot about medicine deliver Sabra's daughter. Tiel learns that the desperate young couple are fleeing to Mexico to escape Sabra's dictatorial father, who has vowed to separate them and put their baby up for adoption. He has even threatened to kill the child, and Sabra and Ronnie have vowed to commit suicide if they are thwarted. Bestselling author Brown (The Alibi) sets up believable conflicts (Ronnie once killed a puppy, rather than return it to an abusive owner). If the dialogue and sex scenes occasionally seem stilted, this popular author's tale still hits hard and keeps moving briskly to its satisfying conclusion. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
The action takes place in New Mexico, but all the main characters are from Texas, always fertile home ground for perennial bestseller Brown (The Alibi, 1999, etc.). Dallas TV reporter Tiel McCoy, en route to a vacation, takes a detour to look for Sabra Dendy, the daughter of a Texas millionaire who's hotfooted it out of town with her boyfriend, Ronnie Davison. Tiel bumps into the duo as they're holding up a small-town convenience store. Turns out Sabra's not only pregnant but in labor; her baby is delivered by the mysterious 'Doc,' who proves to be a Dallas oncologist ruined by the unjust accusation that he helped his mortally ill wife commit suicide. Naturally, Tiel falls for Doc. Naturally, Sabra's dad is a creep who sics the FBI on the misguided lovers. Naturally, there's plenty of time for steamy sex in between the flying bullets. True love conquers (almost) all with time-honored predictability, and Brown's many fans will undoubtedly enjoy her latest.
Booklist Review
Tiel McCoy is driven beyond ambition to the point where her television journalism career is her whole life, meant to compensate for loneliness and guilt about a failed marriage to a husband who died before they could get things straight. A long-postponed vacation is sidetracked when Tiel stops at a convenience store in a desolate part of Texas and gets caught up in a robbery attempt. The robbers are teenage runaways. Ronnie Davison is being sought on charges that he kidnapped his pregnant girlfriend, Sabra Dendy, daughter of a ruthless millionaire who will stop at nothing to separate the pair. Tiel sees the situation as a sure-fire ticket to the anchor position on the Dallas station's proposed prime-time news show. But Tiel finds herself gradually and genuinely engaged with the cast of characters at the store when the attempted robbery turns into a hostage drama. Tiel helps negotiate with the FBI agents who eventually converge on the scene. She gradually becomes just as focused on positioning a good story as on saving lives and keeping the young couple from honoring a desperate suicide pact. A fellow hostage is a ruggedly handsome rancher named Doc, who helps keep tempers calm and delivers Sabra's baby under tense and dangerous circumstances. Tiel recognizes Doc from a story she'd done several years earlier. As the hostage drama draws them closer, Tiel struggles with her ambitions and Doc with his visceral distrust of the media. Plot twists and cliff-hanging chapter endings will keep the best-selling Brown's fans coming back for more. --Vanessa Bush
Library Journal Review
In a series of coincidental events, reporter Tiel McCoy finds herself in the middle of a breaking news story just as she is about to start a much-needed vacation. She becomes an unwilling participant in a kidnapping and robbery when a teenage couple hold up a gas station. Sabra, the 17-year-old girl, is not only pregnant and a runaway, she is the daughter of wealthy Texas businessman Russell Dende, who despises Sabra's boyfriend, Ronnie. When Sabra goes into labor, Tiel is forced to play midwife and negotiator, always keeping her reporter's instincts alert. The other customers/hostages play minor roles, with the exception of the mysterious Doc, who increasingly commands Tiel's interest as he assists with the delivery. Full of stereotypical characters and, at best, an implausible plot, this is not one of the acclaimed Brown's best efforts. Reader Enid Graham finds a distinctive voice for each character without dramatically overdoing it. Although this will not achieve much literary applause, the author's large following will grab this one and find an entertaining escape.DSusan McCaffrey, Haslett H.S., MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
The bestselling author of Sweetwater and more than 20 other novels tackles Depression-era Oklahoma with wit, freshness and memorable characterization. In 1932, after Henry Ann Henry's father dies, she's left with a farm to run and two disreputable half-siblings to civilize. Soon the young woman's brood grows to include her African American foster mother, a vagrant with a secret past, and the young son of a handsome neighbor whose wife is going mad. There are plenty of troubles to contend with, not the least of which are the wagging tongues of the town gossips. An old-fashioned storyteller, Garlock creates people and places with a tart honesty reminiscent of a more adult version of the "Anne of Green Gables" series. Although the black dialect may grate on modern ears, it still has the ring of authenticity. The book is billed as a historical romance but should have wider appeal. National print advertising. (Sept.) FYI: This is the first of three books by Garlock set in the 1930s; the next, With Song, will be published in spring 1999. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Henry Ann, a resourceful, independent, compassionate, and rather prim spinster, surrounds herself with a group of people that sets the gossiping tongues of her Depression-era town wagging. Not only has she taken in her younger half siblings, who, unlike her, were raised by their whore of a mother, but she has also added to her family the abused baby son of her attractive married neighbor Tom Dolan, the black woman who helped raise her, and a bum from the road who proves to be an exceptional man. Of strong moral fiber, Henry Ann is dismayed to find herself yearning for Tom, whose wife becomes more dangerous and deranged every day. Further conflict is added when her younger sister, taking after the ways of their mother, runs away to live with the notorious and trashy Perry clan. The well-drawn 1930s rural Oklahoma setting contributes to the believability of this satisfyingly warm romance. Readers who enjoyed LaVyrle Spencer's Morning Glory (1990) should find this particularly enticing. --Diana Tixier Herald
Library Journal Review
Straying from her more typical late-19th-century time period, Garlock skirts the edges of the contemporary subgenre and launches a promising trilogy of novels set during the Great Depression. Seldom used in romance novels, this difficult, dynamic time comes alive in Garlock's hands as she pens a gritty story about a kind, determined young woman struggling both to attend to her farm and step-siblings and to help her neighbors during the Oklahoma dust bowl days. Garlock's realistic but not always likable characters drive the plot of this vividly depicted romance that calmly and powerfully deals with deception, infidelity, child abuse, and insanity and provides a warm and satisfying love story in the process. Garlock (Sweetwater, Warner, 1998) is a popular writer of earthy, unsentimental Americana-type romances and lives in Clear Lake, IA. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
