THE PRIDE OF PETROVAR BY ALAN H. GAEL

The Pride of Petrovar

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Synopsis

Kansas, 1955.

In Petrovar, the grain elevator is more than a building. It is the thing that keeps farms alive, families rooted, and a town of two hundred and twelve souls standing against the wind.

Danny Callahan has loved Eileen Orr all his life. Everyone in Petrovar knows Eileen: the Irish farmer’s daughter with the red hair, the green eyes, the fierce intelligence, and the gift of making people feel truly seen. But Danny knows her too well. To Eileen, he is home ground—dear, familiar, and not surprising enough.

Then Cole McGraw rides into the Petrovar Town Fair with a string of fine horses and the calm self-possession of a man who belongs nowhere and sees everything. Eileen notices him at once. So does Danny. And as the two are drawn toward each other, Danny must face the possibility that the man who has taken Eileen’s attention may also be the kind of man she deserves.

But heartbreak is not the only trouble coming to Petrovar.

The grain prices are wrong. The cooperative’s books do not add up. Mayor Dub Meacham knows more than he is saying. And when men from Chicago arrive in black Cadillacs and begin studying the grain elevator like something they already own, Danny realizes that the town itself is under threat.

As corruption tightens around Petrovar’s harvest, Danny, McGraw, Sheriff Walt Prentiss, and a handful of decent people must decide what they are willing to risk to save the place that made them. At stake is the town’s livelihood, its honor, and the future of the woman Danny loves.

A tender, suspenseful novel of love, sacrifice, and small-town courage, The Pride of Petrovar is the story of one Kansas summer when a stranger changed everything—and one young man learned that the truest form of love may be letting go.

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