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From the bestselling author of "The Edge of Town" comes a novel about a young girl who must choose between a bootlegging father and the lawman on his trail.
Author Notes
Dorothy Garlock is a Texas native living in Clear Lake, Iowa, who quit her job as a newspaper columnist and reporter at the age of 49 to write novels. She entered her first novel in a contest and lost, but she sold the book. Now, over twenty years later, she has millions of copies in print and has had her work translated into 18 languages.
So many of her more than 40 books are set in the Old West that Dorothy Garlock has come to be classified as a Western Romance writer. She is a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame. Popular titles include Almost Eden, The Listening Sky, and Larkspur. With Hope is a gritty, unsentimental romance set in the Great Depression.
Dorothy Garlock also writes under the names Dorothy Glenn, Dorothy Philips and Johanna Phillips.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Prolific romance author Dorothy Garlock returns to 1920s Missouri in her latest historical. At 21, Annabel Lee Donovan leads a nomadic life, constantly uprooted by the urgent demands of her father's mysterious occupation. When they move to a house on a hill outside the small town of Henderson, she's determined to create a home. With the help of rough but loyal Boone, her father's best friend, Annabel plants a garden and buys a few chickens and a cow. The young woman's domestic dream is threatened by the suspicion (soon confirmed) that her father is a bootlegger and by the lascivious moonshiner who has his eye on her. Meanwhile, the whole town is curious about Corbin Appleby, the handsome lawman from Garlock's The Edge of Town, and no one is more interested than Annabel. This volatile mix of illegal alcohol and love at first sight culminates in gangster warfare and a passionate elopement. National bestseller Garlock is clearly comfortable with her gifts as a storyteller, and she knows her audience. The romance between Annabel and Corbin is sweetly nostalgic (they keep their passion in check until their wedding night), but Garlock isn't afraid to be earthy and funny, nor does she shy away from serious topics like rape and domestic violence. Advertising in USA Today, People and Romantic Times. (June 17) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Beautiful Annabel lives an isolated life as her bootlegger father moves from town to town trying to score enough money to set her up in style. She couldn't care less about society or riches; she just wants her beloved father to quit his dangerous business. Then Corbin Appleby, a former lawman, shows up in Henderson, Missouri, looking for Jack Jones, the ill, badly beaten young man Annabel took in after he turned up on her doorstep. Annabel falls seriously in love with Corbin, but she fears that he's still a lawman, and that he's on her father's trail. The prolific author of The Edge of Town [BKL Ap 15 01], which also features Corbin and Jack, Garlock is the writer to read for Americana Romance. She captures the essence of the rural Prohibition era, and she's such a good storyteller that the reader can feel the textures, hear the music, and smell the baking pie while rooting for love to triumph in the lives of Garlock's endearing characters. --Diana Tixier Herald
Library Journal Review
High on a Hill, a historical romance set in Missouri in the 1920s, is a wholesome story about Annabel Donovan, a bootlegger's daughter, and Corbin Appleby, a likable, attractive, charming sheriff, who fall into a passionate, old-fashioned love. Annabel lives an isolated life with her father, moving repeatedly owing to his bootlegging business. While he travels, she is left in the care of two of his closest friends and business associates, Boone and Spinner. The Donovans finally move to a small town, in a beautiful house, high on a hill in Missouri, but they have been warned to avoid their new neighbors, the Carters. One day, young Jack Jones shows up on Annabel's doorstep sick, hungry, and broke. In the meantime, Jack's sister asks home-town friend Corbin to find Jack, who has run away from home. Corbin locates the young man, meets Annabel, and the speedy courtship begins. Read by Kymberly Dakin, this tale encompasses it all: mystery, love and romance, danger, deception, family relationships, and charm. Garlock expresses well the atmosphere of the 1920s, through the whirlwinds of prohibition. An enjoyable listening experience; recommended for public libraries.-Carol Stern, Glen Cove Lib., NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.