When Mahogany Marsh, nightside editor at the Desire Daily Democrat, loses a promised promotion, she knows it's time for a change. But the newspaper business is bleeding red ink, and jobs are scarcer than rain in drought-ridden West Texas. Her solution: dump her sorry-ass TV news boyfriend and finish that novel she started years ago-the one with only the first and the last sentence written. The one that will make her Texas's answer to Jane Austen...