​​​​​​​​​​​​​On the Oklahoma prairie, even love

is a dangerous adventure.

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A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893.

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Amid the crowd is Minnie Hoopes. Tenacious and fiercely independent, she is determined to endure the brutal frontier and create a life of her own. Guarding her solitude, she distances herself from bordering homesteaders and finds peace under the starry nights of the vast frontier. But this is outlaw country, and Minnie soon has the blood of two gunfighters on her hands. After a renegade outlaw named Stot discovers her secrets, she forms an unlikely friendship with him. With each passing season, Minnie’s past grows more haunting and threatens the future she has risked everything to build. Minnie raced into the Wild West alone, but her grandest adventure in the frontier wilderness will be to love a cowboy.

 

For readers of Cold Mountain and The Four Winds, In the Great Quiet is based on the true story of the author’s great-great-grandparents. This sweeping and transportive survival story explores a woman’s connection with the land, her reconciliation with the past, and her elemental search for home against all odds.

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Settle in, I've stories to tell.