Rainwater won’t require the room for long: he is dying.

Kincaid tells Ella in confidence that Mr. Rainwater is a man of impeccable character, a former cotton broker and a victim of the Great Depression, Ella stiffens at the thought of taking him in.

David Rainwater-but Ella is immediately resistant to opening up her home to this mysterious stranger.Įven with assurances that Mr. When a room in her boarding house opens up, the respected town doctor brings Ella a new boarder―the handsome and gallant Mr. Ella’s plate is full from sunup to sundown. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose busy behavior and failure to speak elicits undesired advice from others in town. Sandra Brown's Rainwater is a poignant, lyrical novel that will speak straight to your heart, a story that bears witness to a powerful truth: love is worth whatever price one must pay for it.Rainwater by Sandra Brown - Unabridged Audiobook 6 CDsĪ romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas.Įlla Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship’s captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. But tensions escalate in the summer heat, until one violent night everything they believe in will be put to the ultimate test. Rainwater's soft-spoken advice and the steely resolve of his convictions. As economic desperation creates bitter social unrest in the town and surrounding farms, Ella finds herself relying on Mr. Aware that he evokes pity and distrust, Ella holds herself aloof from her small community, but her new boarder, David Rainwater, comes into her life - and changes it forever. Acclaimed bestselling author Sandra Brown celebrates the spirit and determination that kept our country proud even through the Great Depression, in this moving tale of a bygone generation and a strong young widow who must rise above her circumstances.Įlla Barron is determined that even the ravages of the Dust Bowl will not affect the well-ordered life she has built for herself and her special child, Solly, who lives in a world of his own that even she can't enter.

Rainwater by sandra brown