Jazz Age

At 21, Julia Jones thinks life is passing her by. Her mother's death four years ago left her in charge of caring for her father and five siblings. When her father finds another woman, Julia suddenly gets another chance for happiness and romance.

Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house. When a young boy calls to the house, he brings trouble for Anabel and her father.

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 young woman who runs the hotel for her aunt, is unprepared to cope with the attention she receives from the woman-hungry men.

The bestselling author of "A Place Called Rainwater" revisits the Jones clan in this tale of a woman torn between two men in the early years of the Depression.