02044cam a2200337 4500 758822030 TxAuBib 20140114120000.0 140203s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013945716 9780989474887 pbk. $14.99 0989474887 pbk. $14.99 TxGR TxAuBib Brown, N.E. The arrival [Book] / N.E. Brown and S.L. Jenkins. Galveston, 1900 : Indignities : The arrival. Portsmouth, N.H. : Mindstir Media, 2013. 320 p. ; 23 cm. Galveston, 1900 : Indignities ; ; 1 "After arriving in Galveston, Texas from England, at the turn of the century, a young courageous fifteen year-old girl, Catherine Eastman must face a new life in an orphange after her mother is murdered by a drifter shortly after they arrive. The drifter, David Brooks, has his own dark past and a passion for prostitutes and beautiful women and often leaves them dead. A young man, ten years older than Catherine, gets permission to marry her and take her from the orphange on her sixteenth birthday. Love and passion ignite as the two fall in love. Brooks' next conquest if Catherine, and after he abducts and violates her, he is caught and sent to a prison farm. All of this is happening while the city of Galveston is blithely unaware of the devastation that waits in the near future. By 9100, a monstrous hurricane is brewing in the gulf that will kill thousands and threaten to wipe the city of the map forever."--Back cover. 20140114. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Rape Fiction. Galveston Fiction. Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. Jenkins, S.L. Galveston, 1900 : Indignities ; ; 1. RV8