The Quivera Trail (ePub)
Isobel Lindsay-Groves has everything a well-born young Englishwoman of 1876 should have-wealth, a title, a noble...
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Where lies escape? How far would you go, just to get away? If you were desperate, would you marry a stranger? Follow him to Texas?
Isobel Lindsay-Groves has everything a well-born young Englishwoman of 1876 should have-wealth, a title, a noble heritage, and every luxury that her position in society permits, save one; a decent proposal of marriage, after a disastrous debut. Her domineering mother is furious with her daughter's failure to marry well, or marry anyone at all.
Isobel is plump, socially inept, loves dogs and horses, and wishes wistfully for a quiet and modest country life. Texas cattle rancher Dolph Becker is the answer to a prayer, for he offers all that … but the price for escape from a gilded world of privilege and the casual malice of her mother and Society is to marry a man she barely knows and follow him to Texas; a new life in a strange and violent place, very different from the calm green hills of England.
Accompanying Isobel on that journey is Jane Goodacre, her personal maid and confidant. Jane, the daughter of a small country shop-keeper, also has ambitions - and talents that she hardly suspects. The limitations and expectations for a young working-class woman in Victorian England weigh very heavily on Jane, although she does not begin to realize that … until she and her lady mistress arrive in Texas.
Her first novel, To Truckee's Trail, grew out of a fascination with the California emigrant trail. The Adelsverein Trilogy, and its companion novels - Daughter of Texas, Deep in the Heart, The Quivera Trail, and Sunset & Steel Rails drew on an interest in the German settlement of the Texas Hill Country, and the dramatic sweep of history in the Lone Star State. She has also authored a collection of adventures intended for younger readers, Lone Star Sons, set in the time of the Republic of Texas. With her daughter, Jeanne Hayden, she has also co-authored Chronicles of Luna City, and The Second Chronicle of Luna City, a collection of comic short stories set in present-day small town South Texas. The third volume of Luna City stories is due out in November, 2016, as well as another historical novel about the California Gold Rush -- The Golden Road.
More about her writing is at the websites www.celiahayes.com and www.lunacitytexas.com.
- Autor: Celia Hayes
- 2018, Englisch
- Verlag: Watercress Press
- ISBN-10: 1386982997
- ISBN-13: 9781386982999
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.03.2018
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- Größe: 0.62 MB
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