from A gifted news storyteller comes a warm funny and endearing tale of life and love off the beaten track. Pat Lloyd has spent her entire life and Kilgore small town off the interstate set admits the subtle beauty the rolling hills and sagebrush covered plans of the West. nobody all the town people as intelligent likeable and a bit odd Pat works at her pop's mercantile and fills the rest of her hours with mail-order books and a solitude of daydreams. but just when Pat's existence scenes settled on the rose a charming and vivacious trucker with the elaborately tool cowboy boots and a mouse that gallops ahead of her mind and rolls off the highway and into Pat's life changing it forever. inspired by her passion for Alma Rose and the unforeseen intensity of their desire Pat transforms her life into startling and monumental testament of The power of Love a brilliant debut novel field memorable characters and a vibrant Spirit of the West. alma Rose was strike a chord in the hearts of every reader.