Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock)

Andy Connors, who runs a garage, is bitten by a rabid skunk. Fortunately, a man named Yates stops for gas and takes control. He drives Andy for treatments, manages the garage and helps Andy's two daughters and Leona, the woman who looks after them.

Widowed, pregnant, and penniless, Marilee returns home to Cross Roads, New Mexico, only to find that her father has been dead for six months and that her mother hasn't been sober since. But Marilee's determined to make a good life for herself and her baby. Her first order of business: fix up the family's Wayside 66 Motor Court, now rundown and overrun by outlaws. It's dangerous with bootlegger Jeb Pierce around; he'd taken charge of the place and...