What is the true meaning of family? Imogene Good finds herself wrestling with this question when, still grieving her mother’s death, she abandons a promising teaching career to open a boarding house in the near-lawless oil boomtown of Borger, Texas. Alone.

The business thrives, love arrives in the form of a mysterious Texas Ranger, and Imogene takes in a stray dog and a runaway cousin from the Good family farm in East Texas. But months later, as fatigue, mounting threats, and violence against her business threaten to overwhelm her, she finds refuge in the contents of a trunk she carted to town after her mother’s death.

*Author, Teddy Jones, will join us via Zoom. Bring your questions!