Everybody in McDade, Texas thought Dellie O'Barr was "the good little sister." Dellie has always done what her father wanted; she even married the suitor her older sister rejected -- an earnest man with a college education, a large ranch, and a law practice in town. Dellie has always done the proper thing.
Always, that is, until the death of her papa.
Out of the blue, she finds herself falling for a stranger, a man stirring up the countryside with his Populist speeches. Clearly, no good can come of it -- he's an out-and-out rabble-rouser, a man set on disturbing the turn-of-the-century status quo on farms all over Central Texas. And he's married.
But for the love of this man, Dellie tosses aside her own status -- a privileged life and perfect reputation -- and opens herself to whispers of adultery and disloyalty. Not only that, she's suspected of burning down a local store hostile to her lover and his Populist followers. And when he flees town, she leaves her rich husband to chase after him.
As much about married love as forbidden love, THE PASSION OF DELLIE O'BARR is the story of a singular woman's life and the lives of the two men she chooses as lovers. One, Andrew Ashland, is a dynamic political crusader. The other, Daniel O'Barr, is the man she leaves behind -- the man who waits for her to come back home and stands by her when she returns to the scandalized town of McDade.
Once again, Cindy Bonner breathes life into a romantic drama of complex, believable men and women set against the backdrop of the Texas history she knows so well. THE PASSION OF DELLIE O'BARR is a romance with true literary sensibilities.
