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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"You'll be safe here. That's what the greasy tour guide tells the Farmer-Bowens when they visit Plymouth Valley, a walled-off company town with clean air, pantries that never go empty, and blue-ribbon schools. On a very trial basis, the company offers to hire Linda Farmer's husband, a numbers genius, and relocate her whole family to this bucolic paradise for the .0001%. Though Linda will have to sacrifice her medical career back home, the family jumps...
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From 1924 to 1962, Texon was a model company oil town in Reagan County, Texas. Pittsburgh-based Big Lake Oil Company developed the town site next to the Big Lake Oil Field and Santa Rita No. 1, the discovery well on University of Texas lands in the Permian Basin. Pres. Levi Smith ensured that company employees and their families enjoyed comfortable housing and community amenities, including a grade school, hospital, nondenominational church, theater,...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher who left her life of high society to teach out west in the rustic town of Hope Valley is finally feeling at home in the small town. However, she is still in unknown territory when it comes to her feelings for the handsome Constable Jack Thornton. Even after acknowledging they come from very different backgrounds, Elizabeth and Jack realizes they feel passionately towards each other.