Empire by Sheldon Russell

Cloth; As New. Dust Jacket; Good. Empire by Sheldon Russell. Signed, First Edition/First Printing. Fiction/Literature."Doug Ryan, discouraged with the city and a failed romance, takes a teaching job in the small railroad town of Monarch, Oklahoma. It is here in this sleepy town that a tale of intrigue, romance and murder begins.Doug quickly finds himself drawn into the lives of those around him, the powerful, the beautiful, the eccentric, all victims in their own way of the railroad's demise and the vacuum left by that demise. The Lynches and the Silvermans fill that vacuum, alike only in their greed, their thirst for power, their craving for vengeance. Like run-away steam engines they speed towards each other, crushing any who dare get in their way.Doug Ryan finds himself caught between these powerful and dangerous families, snared in emotions too strong to break, infatuated by the love of Dana, the young Indian girl in his class, tempted by the unbridled and raw passion of Vicki Silv