Glory Creek
(Book)

San Antonio, 1876. Bailey Rose lives under the porch of a whorehouse in San Antonio, raised by a drug-addicted mother and a violent madam. In a desperate attempt to reject her preordained life as a soiled dove, she sneaks off to school one fine day, and there she meets Jacob Naplava, the kindest boy she has ever known. What follows is a wondrous journey to Jacob's sheep ranch in the Hill Country, where supernatural events begin to unfold-some beautiful, some beastly. Within a few magical days, her life becomes entwined with that of a laughing, blue-eyed boy and his gentle, enigmatic brother. But a tragic set of events involving a mysterious man from her mother's past who is obsessed with possessing Bailey, body and soul, tears her away from the enchanting world of Glory Creek.