Author Julia Brewer Daily’s

Favorite Quotes from

THE FIFTH DAUGHTER OF THORN RANCH

“Fate had not smiled on her yet. Could she shoot this man? She’d never killed anyone before.” —Emma Rosales, The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch

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“Like Lola and generations of Rosales women before her, Emma was an only child and heir to the kingdom surrounding her.” —Emma Rosales, The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch

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“That summer would be when Emma rode off on her horse and did not come home.” —Emma Rosales, The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch

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“With their daughter missing, Josie still worried about the damned land. Always the land.” —Josie Rosales, The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch

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“Dear God. She had thought a snake bite was the worst that could happen to her.” —Emma Rosales, The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch

Julia Brewer Daily is a Texan with a southern accent. She holds a B.S. in English and a M.S. degree in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi.

She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS.

She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.

As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.

She is a member of the Writers’ League of Texas, the Women Fiction Writers’ Association, Women Writing the West, and the Pulpwood Queens Book Club.

A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas Star.