Grace: A Novel

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Author's Note

Grace • Jane Roberts Wood Number 3 in the Evelyn Oppenheimer Series Denton, Texas Copyright © Jane Roberts Wood, 2001 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Permissions: University of North Texas Press 1155 Union Circle #311336 Denton, TX 76203-5017 All rights reserved. Portions of this book originally appeared in The Pawn Review and Southwest Review. The Library of Congress has catalogued the Dutton edition as follows: Wood, Jane Roberts. Grace / Jane Roberts Wood, p. cm. ISBN 0-525-94602-0 (hb.) ISBN 0-452-28339-6 (pbk.) 1. World War, 1939-1945—Texas, East—Fiction. 2. Neighborhood—Fiction. 3. Texas, East— Fiction. I. Title. PS3573.05945 G7 2001 813’.54—dc21 00-050336 University of North Texas Press ISBN: 978-1-57441-278-9 Printed in the United States of America Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. PUBLISHER’S NOTE This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Grace is Number 3 in the Evelyn Oppenheimer Series For Annabel, Thomas, Alex, Catherine Jane, Victoria, Clinton, and Charles. With love, Jane Author’s Note For their careful listening and perceptive comments during the writing of this book, my thanks to Jeannie Davis and Nancy Jones Castilla. And for his expert and generous help and advice, I also wish to thank Paxton Moore. Grace ...