Misfortune war dogs and unable to forget a

and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night

Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires

their families

From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series

wild journey -- an extraterrestrial scientific expedition that goes horribly awry

Misfortune war dogs and unable to forget aYou know who I am. But perhaps you don't know my name: Rose Old. I was unwanted at birth and thrown away, evidence best disposed of. If you consider that, bloodily new to the world, I was bound for a dusty grave and that I was saved only by a distracted boy and a stray dog, it's a miracle that I lived an hour, let alone as long as I have. Who'd have imagined I'd live to tell the tale, as it were? Fortune patted me on the head at an early age, but it