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Money is tight while Liberty Jones is growing up in Welcome, Texas, but somehow she and her mother Diana manage. Having good friends like Miss Marva, Lucy Reyes, and especially Hardy Cates, on whom Liberty has a crush, helps. Then tragedy strikes and Liberty must take care of her younger... read more

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  • Liberty Jones: She is from the wrong side of the tracks but she has dreams and goals, she raises her little sister all by herself after her mom passes away. She then becomes a hairstylist.
  • Gage Travis: Churchill's oldest son by his first wife Joanna, who died in childbirth. A Harvard Business School graduate, he owns a business and helps at his father's investment firm.
  • Hardy Cates: He is the young man that Liberty falls in love with at a very young age. He leaves her to go and make something of himself.
  • Carrington Jones: Liberty's little sister.
  • Churchill Travis: Wealthy Houston financier
  • Jack Travis: Churchill's second oldest child
  • Haven Travis: Churchill's youngest child and only daughter who attends college in the Northeast.
  • Joe Travis: Churchill's youngest son
  • Miss Marva: Elderly woman who lives in the trailer park who makes various arts and crafts. She befriends Liberty and her Mom.
  • Gretchen Travis: Churchill's older sister who never married but was engaged three times to men who died tragically
  • Zenko: Salon One owner and infamous stylist to the wealthy and famous
  • Arthur Ferguson: Funeral home owner and new beau of Miss Marva
  • Angie: One of the stylists at Salon One. She has a "sugar daddy."
  • Lucy Reyes: One of Liberty's best friends from high school
  • Luke Bishop: Liberty's senior year boyfriend
  • Hannah Cates: Hardy's younger sister. She's one year younger than Liberty.
  • Dawnelle: the model who is dating Gage when Liberty meets him, she has an acerbic tongue
  • Bobby Ray: Miss Marva's beau
  • Miss Judie: Hardy and Hannah's mother
  • Gill Mincey: Boy who gave Liberty her first kiss
  • Alan: One of the stylists at Salon One
  • Louis Sadlek: Property manager of the Blue Bonnet Ranch trailer park
  • Ava Travis: Churchill's second wife who died of breast cancer
  • Mrs. Maria Vasquez: Director of the East Houston Academy of Cosmetology.
  • Diana Jones: Liberty's mother
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First Sentence edit see section history

When I was four, my father died in an oil-rig accident.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1 - 25
Epilogue

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 3 in Travis. (standard series)

Followed by Blue-Eyed Devil.

This is book 52 of 100 in AAR Top 100 Romances 2010. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Slave to Sensation, and followed by Dream a Little Dream.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lisa Kleypas (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 6, 2007
ISBN: 978-0312351625
Page Count: 384

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Profanity and sexual content.

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Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Blue-Eyed Devil
  • Smooth Talking Stranger

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