Outskirts Press, INC.

uncommon Lands is an emotionally, gripping story of how quickly a life can turn dangerously wrong...

With the help of Luther, an illegal farmhand, Mary Beth Ivy owns and manages a truck farm just south of Opelousas, Louisiana...bayou country.

Five years after losing her husband, Jack, she is finally content and happy with her life...until west Texas rancher, Yancy McCone, traveling through south Louisiana, breaks down on I-10 and needs a place to board his thoroughbred horses overnight. The Ivy barn is perfect.

Not only is he attracted to the widow, Mrs.Ivy, he needs her farm to rescue his almost bankrupt ranch.

However, within days of visiting his ranch, Mary Beth realizes her infatuation has led her to make a huge mistake. If the dry, dead, tumbleweed land wasn't depressing enough, Yancy McCone shows his true character and he isn't a man she can love. She wants to go home to her lush, green farmland, and to Luther.

Yancy doesn't handle rejection well; especially being dumped for an illegal farmhand, and he is determined to have her or ruin her.

And, his son, Eric, who feels his inheritance threatened by his father's involvement with Mary Beth, will go to any lengths to have her out of their lives.

For different reasons, and unbeknownst to each other, father and son become intent on destroying her.