Audio Book Description:
Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their fatherfrom town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks. And in every small town, mother Elizabeth does her level best to make each sparse,temporary house they inhabit a home. But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms,and the family`s fortunes sinkfurther when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront thecruelest hardships of these hardest of times. With no choiceleft to them, they return to the abandoned family farm. It is Jeanine Stoddard who devotes herself to rebuilding the farm and their lives.But hard work and good intentions won`t make ends meet. In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil welland on the back of late patriarch Jack`s one true legacy,a dangerous racehorse namedSmoky Joe. And Jeanine must decide if she will gamble itall...on love.
