It is 1915 in the sleepy hamlet of Sweet Shrub. Lucy Richards has a full and busy life. Then Lucy finds out that the town hides tensions and unrest that will re

Lucy Richards helps her mother with the family hardware store and takes care of her aunt and pregnant sister, until the arrival of her long-time suitor, Josh Ar

"Seventeen-year-old Lucinda Richards begins her job as the new school teacher for the White Star school in West Texas."--Page 4 of cover.

Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds th

From Jane Roberts Wood comes a quietly riveting novel revealing the banal faces of evil in a small East Texas town. In 1946 a young couple is brutally murdered