Behind the Pine Curtain Gerri Hill Paperback

Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas when she was seventeen, because she was gay. Her family was the largest employer in the county, owning Pine Springs Lumber, and her father was mayor. Her mother could not accept the fact that her only child was gay, could not tolerate the gossip about her family. So, with a hundred dollars in her pocket and a one-way bus ticket out of town, Jacqueline was told not to come back until she had come to her senses. And that included being prepared to marry the son of a business associate of the family. Fifteen years later-long after she'd hitch-hiked to Los Angeles, long after she'd worked nights to put herself through college, and long after she'd written her first best seller, No Place For Family-Jacqueline is persuaded to go back to the tiny town of Pine Springs after her father's death. The quick trip she'd envisioned for the funeral turns into weeks as she learns her father's business is suddenly hers to mana...