Dorothy Garlock

It's 1946, after the end of WWII, and Christina Tucker decides to take a nursing job in the small town of Longstock, Wisconsin, working with Dr. Samuel Barlow. Dr. Barlow is well-regarded by the people of Longstock, except for one man: Morris Doyle. Morris believes that his younger brother Jimmy died as a result of Barlow's shoddy care and he is determined to punish the doctor for what he's done -- even if it means hurting those the doctor loves most,...

On a hot summer day in 1932, Andy Connors, who owns a garage that serves Route 66, finds himself in major trouble: He's been bitten by a rabid skunk.

Life in Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, in 1945 is focused entirely on the war. Olivia Marsten does everything she can for the war effort and to support Billy, her childhood best friend who's leaving soon for Navy training. Then Billy confesses he's been in love with her for years and proposes. Olivia reluctantly accepts. She can't bear to send him off to serve in the Navy with a broken heart... even though her heart belongs to someone else. Olivia is...

Schoolteacher Hallie Wolcott flees Whiskey Bend, Colo., with her friends Pearl and Mary after Mary is beaten by Chester, one of the town's many brutes. Pearl, the eldest, has been through this before, and she won't rest until they find a place that feels safe. Fortunately, a powerful storm leaves them washed up at tumbledown ranch owned by Eli Morgan. Eli's cantankerous and cruel mother wants no part of the women, but she begrudgingly changes her...

"Sophie Heller and her family sacrificed everything to escape Nazi Germany, yet as war fever sweeps their small town of Victory, Illinois, they become targets of whispered accusations and a vicious attack. Her father won't go to the law, but Sophie, now a newspaperwoman, vows to expose those behind the threats. Her own ally is Cole Ambrose, a teacher whose quiet strength slowly earns her trust ... and hides secret pain. But will their defiance --...

From the bestselling author of The Edge of Town comes a novel about the Prohibition era and a young girl who must choose between a bootlegging father and the lawman on his trail.
Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house in Missouri. Anabel is glad that she was able to finish high school before the move, but has resigned herself to the fact that her father's bootlegging...

When her small 1920s Oklahoma town booms in the wake of an oil discovery, Jill, the niece of the local hotel owner, is harassed by locals before reluctantly accepting protection from neighbor Thad.

After inheriting a string of rundown cabins on a stretch of New Mexico highway, Mary Lee Clawson sets out to rebuild the family business and discovers she has to fight more than foreclosure. There's her mother, Dolly - disinherited, angry, and whiskey-soaked - not to mention her disreputable friends. Still, Mary Lee wins champions: kind neighbors, a thirteen-year-old drifter who would die for her, and Jake Romero, a man with a past whose green eyes...

Oklahoma, 1932: Trouble seems to be rolling up like the dust on the dry yellow horizon beyond Henry Ann's farm. Her father is dead and her two rebellious half-siblings are now her responsibility. Then Tom Dolan, a new neighbor, comes into her life bringing both a ray of hope and burdens of his own. Before they can fully love each other, tragedy strikes. Tom is suspected of murder...and a staunch Henry Ann must stand by his side. Yet despite the dark...