Blue Earth

by JulesHardy (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.25

  The Reichmanns are a prosperous farming family. The envy of Blue Earth County, Minnesota, they delight in their good fortune and their three blond sons. But when World War II shatters the dreams they worked so hard to build, the youngest, Billy-Ray, vows to confront the world that has so betrayed them. It is no accident that he becomes an unrivalled oil prospector, driven to tame the untameable land that makes him so rich and powerful, yet leaves him always wanting. From the oil fields of Alaska, to the country estates of the English aristocracy, Billy-Ray seeks forgiveness in the arms of the women he seduces, and begs deliverance from the landscapes he so ruthlessly exploits. Set against the dramatic elements that constitute the world we live in: the unfathomable power of the sea, the unstable nature of the ground we walk on and the destructive force of human endeavour, Jules Hardy takes us on an epic journey of love, adventure and human fallibility.

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.25

  ONE MAN. THREE WOMEN. AND THE TWIST OF FATE THAT BINDS THEM. When Billy Ray Rickman boards the Queen Mary in 1957 he leaves his humble Minnesotan background, his family farm and his demons behind to head for riches and prosperity in the burgeoning oil industry and High Society London. It is here on the first class promenade deck that Billy Ray falls in love with Lady Jacqueline Cooper, the beautiful American heiress who captures his heart like no other...Until Billy Ray meets the aristocratic Isobel, a fiery English Rose whose love is out of bounds and above social convention...but nothing is beyond the realms of possibility for the self-made Billy Ray. Including Maggie Regan, Lady Cooper's raven-haired servant girl, an Irish beauty who escaped incarceration in a convent, only to commit to a life of domestic service...and to a secret she carries to her grave.