Mary's Place

Charlotte Hinger is the award-winning author of a number of historical and mystery novels, including The Healer’s Daughter and Come Spring, as well as the nonfiction book Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas.

"Powerful, touching and real, Mary's Place is a deeply woven understanding of the human spirit, its strength and its will to survive."-Milana Marsenich, Roundup Magazine “A fresh look at the Wild West-1980s style-pitting a Kansas farming family against bankers, weather, governmental bureaucracy, the FDIC, and each other. Charlotte Hinger writes with passion and authority, telling a poignant story that is unpredictable, powerful, and terribly real.”-Johnny D. Boggs, nine-time Spur Award–winning author “Mary’s Place is a riveting, powerful novel, confidently twisty, that pits a beleaguered old banker against his lifelong friend.”-Kathleen O’Neal Gear, New York Times best-selling author of The Ice Orphan “I was caught up with the real and powerful characters in Mary’s Place and teared up at threats they might lose their farm. Then teared up again when something right and wonderful took place. I loved this book.”-Irene Bennett Brown, award-winning author of the Nickel Hill series “What happens when a national farm crisis falls on the heads of a troubled farm family? As told in this beautifully crafted, compelling novel, the calamity produces panic, hostility, self-doubt, and betrayal, but it also spawns startling outbursts of courage, self-sacrifice, and grit. . . . Charlotte Hinger gives us a universal tale of human frailty and the struggle for virtue contained within a single family’s fight to survive.”-Richard Edwards, coauthor of The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration

• Prologue1. Chapter One2. Chapter Two3. Chapter Three4. Chapter Four5. Chapter Five6. Chapter Six7. Chapter Seven8. Chapter Eight9. Chapter Nine10. Chapter Ten11. Chapter Eleven12. Chapter Twelve13. Chapter Thirteen14. Chapter Fourteen15. Chapter Fifteen16. Chapter Sixteen17. Chapter Seventeen18. Chapter Eighteen19. Chapter Nineteen20. Chapter Twenty21. Chapter Twenty-One22. Chapter Twenty-Two23. Chapter Twenty-Three24. Chapter Twenty-Four25. Chapter Twenty-Five26. Chapter Twenty-Six27. Chapter Twenty-Seven28. Chapter Twenty-Eight29. Chapter Twenty-Nine30. Chapter Thirty31. Chapter Thirty-One32. Chapter Thirty-Two33. Chapter Thirty-Three34. Chapter Thirty-Four35. Chapter Thirty-Five36. Chapter Thirty-Six37. Chapter Thirty-Seven38. Chapter Thirty-EightAcknowledgments