In the Great Quiet

A cannon booms at high noon and the race begins in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893, where Minnie Hoopes stakes a claim and sets out alone to endure the brutal frontier. Tenacious and fiercely independent, she keeps her distance from neighboring homesteaders, finding peace under starry nights while trying to build a life on her own terms. Outlaw country tests her solitude when Minnie ends up with the blood of two gunfighters on her hands and forms an unlikely friendship with a renegade named Stot. Haunted by secrets from her past, she struggles to protect the future she has risked everything to create. This story is based on the true experience of the author’s great-great-grandparents.