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Bestselling author Dorothy Garlock delivers a moving, nostalgic tale of Americana set in Oklahoma in the late twenties.The small town of Rainwater, Oklahoma, has become a notorious
boomtown now that a gusher has flooded its streets with drillers, welders, and roustabouts of every description. Jill, a spunky and hardworking young woman who runs the hotel for her aunt, is unprepared to cope with the attention she receives from the woman-hungry men. Despite her attempts to thwart their show more advances, she finds herself cornered by a group of men on the street one afternoon when Thad Taylor, a young neighbor, comes to her rescue. Believing Jill to be a "street flapper," Thad makes it his duty to curb her wild ways. Jill wants nothing to do with Thad-until a woman is murdered in town. Now, Jill's finally accepted Thad's protection... but is she willing to accept more?
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Jill traveled to Oklahoma, with her dad's permission at 17 years of age when times were ruff. She was quite independent and soon her life long friend Taylor joined her. He was her brother's best friend. They were there to watch over the bed and breakfast for her dying aunt. The crazy attorney made my skin crawl. His murders were extremely vile.
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75+ Works 5,740 Members
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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) Dorothy Garlock is an award-winning author with over 40 published novels. She lives in Clear Lake, Iowa. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Place Called Rainwater
- Original publication date
- 2003-01-06
- Important places
- USA; Oklahoma, USA
- Important events
- Great Depression
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- Members
- 170
- Popularity
- 191,790
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.47)
- Languages
- Czech, English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 3
