![]() ![]() Rainwater's application to board, but she knows that something is happening she is being swept along by an unusual series of events. Rainwater won't require the room for long: he is dying. Kincaid tells Ella in confidence that Mr. Rainwater is a man of impeccable character, a former cotton broker and a victim of the Great Depression, Ella stiffens at the thought of taking him in. David Rainwater-but Ella is immediately resistant to opening up her home to this mysterious stranger. When a room in her boarding house opens up, the respected town doctor brings Ella a new boarderthe handsome and gallant Mr. Ella's plate is full from sunup to sundown. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose busy behavior and failure to speak elicits undesired advice from others in town. Ella Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship's captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. A romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas. ![]()
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