Henry Carter Hull

On a cold winter night in a small Minnesota town in 1979, someone comes looking for Grace Meade. She is killed and her house is set ablaze. Incredibly, the prime suspect is her own daughter, Jillian. Rescued from the burning house, Jillian Meade is hospitalized, unable-or unwilling-to speak. After an attempt to take her own life, Jillian's doctor gives her a blank journal to encourage her to write about her mother's death. Unaware of what has happened,...

Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.

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"He drank her in, as if dying of thirst, but not touching her with anything more than his heated gaze. She held out her hand. He clasped it. And they caught fire. Audrey Oakes is in Wildcat Bluff County on a mission. She has a lead on the legendary Hallelujah Ranch bootlegger gold -- money that would cover the cost of her grandmother's life-saving medical treatment -- but she hadn't counted on following it straight into a group of wild horse rustlers....