Now he and Amelia were riding down dangerous trails, sleeping under the stars, and God help them, they were falling in love. And he would fight any man-except his brother-for her heart. She had eyes that could see past his wounded face to his soul. But from the moment Houston met Amelia, he knew she possessed the courage this wild land needed. Brought up in war-ravaged Georgia, Amelia thought Dallas’s letters made Texas sound like heaven, a place for her dreams to grow with the right man beside her.īy all appearances, Houston Leigh would hardly be considered the “right man.” The war he survived had scarred him inside and out, and he was little competition for his handsome brother. He was Houston, Dallas’s brother, sent to escort her on the rugged three-week trek to the ranch where Dallas waited. The tall cowboy at the station wasn’t Dallas. A weary, ex-Civil War soldier travels to Fort Worth to collect his brothers mail-order. Arriving on the Fort Worth train, Miss Amelia Carson, mail-order bride, had never met Dallas Leigh, the Texan she promised to marry. Texas Destiny is the first book in the Texas Trilogy by Lorraine Heath.
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The beginning of 1408's end is the same in both the theatrically released cut and the director's cut, which contains the originally planned conclusion. Yet, the ending audiences saw in theaters was the end result of big changes to the original conclusion. Jackson as Olin, 1408 was a critical and commercial hit, and is generally considered one of the best King-based movies to date. Starring John Cusack as Enslin and Samuel L. Many King fans pointed to 1408 as the standout story of Everything's Eventual, and in 2007, a film adaptation of 1408 was released. Related: 1408: The Creepy True Story That Inspired The Movie Unsurprisingly, he soon learns Olin was right. Against the desperate urging of hotel manager Gerald Olin, Enslin books the room after threatening Olin with legal action. Research for a new book leads Enslin to the supposedly haunted room 1408 at New York City's high-end Dolphin Hotel. The story focuses on Mike Enslin, an author and paranormal investigator who, oddly enough, doesn't actually believe in the paranormal. 1408 was first published in King's 1999 short story collection Everything's Eventual, which as usual for the author, was received exceptionally well. This year, however, because PEN asked me to annotate the book, I did read it all the way through, and I was glad I did, because when I got to that final sentence, I suddenly remembered something I had long since forgotten: The moment when I thought of that sentence - and how much that moment meant to me. When, more recently, I occasionally did so, it was only to read a chapter or two to prepare myself for a lecture or an interview I was giving, certainly never to read it all the way through to the last line. For a long time after it was published (in 1974, 40 years ago), for a couple of decades probably, I never opened the book. 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