SUGAR LAND

It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend -
who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men, hoping to keep her secret attractions under lock and key. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story) - but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison.

Sugar Land is a triumphant, beautiful debut novel about the heart's refusal to be denied what the heart wants.

Tammy Lynne Stoner's work has been selected for more than a dozen anthologies and literary journals. She was nominated for a Million Writers Award and earned her MFA from Antioch University. Tammy has lived in fifteen cities, working as a biscuit maker, a medical experimentee, a gas station attendant, and a college instructor, among other odd jobs. She is the creator of Dottie's Magic Pockets and the Publisher of Gertrude, based in Portland, OR, where she lives with her lady-friend, Karena, and their three kids.