Library Journal Review: Starred Review. While their father was alive, the Stoddard family followed him to the booming oil towns of Texas. Then came the dust and drought of the 1930s, and the family crawled home to its abandoned farm in central Texas. To survive, Elizabeth Stoddard and her three daughters concoct two schemes that go beyond hardscrabble farming: shares in a wildcat oil well and ownership of an untrained racehorse named Smokey Joe. Told mostly from the perspective of the plucky middle sister, Jeanine, Jiles's follow-up to her highly praised debut, Enemy Women, whips up high hopes for the Stoddard family's survival and success as Jeanine matures before our eyes. Readers will be proud of her horse sense, her skills with a needle, and her determined practicality. Despite the hardships of the Great Depression, the Stoddard women do not go without love or romance. A deeply satisfying novel with wide appeal; recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1/07; reading group guide available at www.harpercollins.com.]?Keddy Ann Outlaw, Harris Cty. P.L., Houston Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.