Pines and Plains Libraries

A woman attempts to put her life back together after the death of her husband, as shemoves with her children into her estranged Aunt’s goat farm in Central Texas, meeting and matching wills with the ranch’s resident cowboy.

"Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach--and a mysterious fortune left aboard--Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her...

Will Parker arrives in the small town of Whitney, after spending five years in Huntsville Prison for killing someone in La Grange, Texas. Through an ad in the local paper, Will discovers that Emily, a recently widowed mother of two small boys, is actively looking for a husband and father. Star-crossed loners, Will and Emily decide to make a go of their collective plight and Will moves into the barn on her farm. When a local woman is found murdered,...

An evocative drama about a woman caught leading a double life after one husband murders the other, and the true-crime writer who becomes obsessed with telling her story--this masterful work of literary suspense marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. In 1985, Dolores "Lore" Rivera marries Andres Russo in Mexico City, even though she is already married to Fabian Rivera in Laredo, Texas, and they share twin sons. Through her career as an international...

A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.

"In a small Texas town, an innocent orphan boy, Francis, is hoping to find a place to call home. Maddie Blanton kindly welcomes her new charge, but her husband, Carl and his mother are suspicious of the boy. As Francis is becoming a man, and fueled by accusations from Carl's mistress, Vera, he is forced to leave the farm and finds employment with Jim Verret. Unsettling events draw him back to the Blantons, where courageously he embraces his new...

Follow the adventures of master detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson as they solve one baffling case after another with the aid of the bumbling Inspector Lestrade.

"When her son is accused of a violent crime, church first lady Gloria Jones finds herself battling his prosecutor--as well as her own inner demons--to save him in this drama-filled novel from bestselling, award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Gloria Jones is living a mother's worst fear. There's a massive manhunt for her son after a regular night out with friends escalated into the fatal shooting of a police officer. Her husband, esteemed...