The Heart of Lisbeth

A love story in the spirit of Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Long Hot Summer

Jed Payne has had little but heartache in his young life, having been fostered out at the age of four, then being shuffled from one place to the next before the summer an old truck breaks down leaving him at the side of a lonely Oklahoma rural highway changing his life forever. Lisbeth Oblander, an early 40's widowed mother of a young boy who unknowingly entered into a horrible second marriage to a man with infidelity and gambling issues needed someone to work on the barn on her remote 480 acre hay farm on the Cimarron River and she hired Jed; neither of them knowing their hearts and fates had been forever linked the day she did. Lisbeth quickly finds herself in a confliction of conscience between doing the right thing and giving into a love that is everything lacking in her life. All of them are unknowingly on a collision course with destiny that will end in a violent and tragic conclusion.

By the Oklahoma born and bred author, Josiah Thomas, who still resides on his family's small generational farm in rural Oklahoma. No AI has been used in the production of this book, either cover or contents.