Molly Malone’s Love Story: Lonesome Small-Town High School Teacher

Miss Molly Malone, from San Francisco, has trapped herself in a small town in Iowa where she teaches high school. She yearns for the West, for mountains, boats, water . . . and perhaps a husband. Chances are nil where she now lives. She runs an ad "for correspondence." Members of the school board see it as an advertisement for sex. It brings trouble--but it produces results.

After living and traveling in all parts of the country, from Florida to Alaska and Hawaii, Jess Thompson knows the setting and the people both of small towns and of the big cities. His extensive knowledge of history, religion, and the cultural background of his settings and characters, gained both through experience and voracious reading, gives him an edge in creating his novels.