Wonderland Creek

Lynn Austin Will Delight Readers with Her Winsome Heroine<BR><BR>Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world her nose stuck in a book. But happily-ever-after life she's planned on suddenly falls apart when her boyfriend Gordon breaks up with her accusing her of living in a world of fiction instead of the real world. Then to top it off Alice loses her beloved job at the library because of cutbacks due to the Great Depression.<BR><BR>Fleeing small-town gossip Alice heads to the mountains of eastern Kentucky to deliver five boxes of donated books to the library in the tiny coal-mining village of Acorn. Dropped off by her relatives Alice volunteers to stay for two weeks to help the librarian Leslie McDougal.<BR><BR>But the librarian turns out to be far different than she anticipated--not to mention the four lady librarians who travel to the remote homes to deliver the much-desired books. While Alice is trapped in Acorn against her will she soon finds that real-life adventure and mystery--and especially romance--are far better than her humble dreams could have imagined.