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Houston in the 1920s is a city of established cotton kings and recently rich engine oil barons, where the elite live in beaux skill mansions behind the gates of Courtlandt Place. Kirby Augustus Allen, grandson of the Allen brothers who founded Houston as a genuine estate deal, is grooming his child Hetty to marry Lamar Rusk, scion of the Splendora engine oil bundle of money. Instead, at the No-Tsu-Oh Carnival of 1928, beautiful, rebellious Hetty encounters a mystical man from Montana dressed in the gear of an wildcatter - an outsider known as Garret MacBride. Hetty is torn between Lamar's lavish courtship and her instinctive link with Garret. As Lamar's partner, she would be guaranteed popularity to the highest rates of Houston society. Yet Garret, poor but powerfully ambitious, offers the excitement she craves, with rendezvous in illicit jazz golf clubs and reckless times of love. The men's strong rivalry reaches business, as rumors of a great, untapped ocean of engine oil in East Tx spark a frenzy that can make fortunes - or shatter lives and dreams beyond repair.
