This saga about the building of an oil empire and one manâs personal journey is âwonderful . . . A truly exciting novelâ (Orlando Sentinel).
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After Sam Sheridan returns home from the World War I battlefront, he receives an odd inheritance from a man heâs never met: a parcel of land in east Texas. With little to lose, he and his wife set off from Kansas City and find themselves in the dusty town of Daneâwhere theyâre met with inexplicable hostility.
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When a wealthy local rancher attempts to buy Samâs hundred acres for an impressive sum, Sam decides to hold on to it instead. And in the years and decades that follow, heâll find himself dealing with a brutal rivalry, a growing fortune, and a number of shocking secrets.
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âConflict, emotion, sex, suspense, joy, sorrow, surprise . . . Itâs a truly exciting novel, and the authorâs talent and attention to even the smallest detail serve to make it even more satisfying. From the provocative first chapter on, the reader is totally caught up in Sam Sheridanâs world, in his quest for his past, his present and his future.â âOrlando Sentinel
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âFast-paced . . . absorbing and real.â âChicago Tribune
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âEntertaining and well-written.â âLibrary Journal
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âA winner.â âHouston Chronicle