Dorothy Garlock

Sunset, Missouri, 1954. In postwar America, young widow Clara Sinclair finds her life changed by daring stranger Drake McCoy's unexpected kindness. Can their love survive the vicious, unseen enemy that is closing in fast?

"Buckton, Indiana, 1956. As post-war America brims with new opportunities, a young woman discovers the courage to follow her dreams-and her heart. Gwendolyn Foster's life seems like a dream come true. A bright future in front of her, the successful, traditional man her parents wanted at her side. What more could a girl ask for? But Gwen has a different dream altogether-to be a writer-and she won't rest until it comes true. Strong arms to support her,...

"In early 1930s Montana, in the small town of Colton, Maddy Aldridge struggles to make ends meet during the Great Depression. With her mother long dead, her stubborn younger sister fighting her at every turn, and her father's arthritis deteriorating so badly that she has to run the family store alone, her desperation grows by the day. Enter Jeffers Grimm with a proposition too great for her to turn down: open an illegal speakeasy in the mercantile's...

Tired of the loneliness entailed by her bootlegger father's nomadic business, a young woman is delighted when a young man arrives and is recruited for the operation, until his older sister sends a law officer to find him

During the 1930's, a young woman makes a new life for herself in rural Louisiana when she leaves home after the death of her father

Shunned by her long-time neighbors at the height of World War II, a German immigrant and newspaper reporter finds her family wrongfully blamed for a tragic train accident and is unexpectedly defended by a handsome high-school teacher

When their friend is assaulted in the street of their hard-drinking, gun-toting Colorado town, a young schoolteacher and a spinster set out in an open wagon to find a safer life, an endeavor that pits them against violent natural elements and their friends

A young woman in Arkansas is charmed by the owner of a fishing camp, but is wary of his potential connections to several local crimes

Follows a young woman who takes over a frontier hotel during Oklahoma's oil boom and carves a place for herself in a man's world

A woman disfigured in an automobile accident struggles with her self-image and the affections of the man who saved her life