Along Came Mary Author:Jo-Ann Mapson An L. A. Times BestsellerIn Along Came Mary, Jo-Ann Mapson brings back the hard-luck women of her acclaimed novel Bad Girl Creek, and introduces Mary Madigan into their midst. After wising up to her drunken rodeo-crooner lover, Mary begins a journey that takes her across the South -- singing in and winning one karaoke contest af... more »ter another -- and drawing her closer to an unavoidable showdown with her past. In Oklahoma City, she meets Rick, who is charming, persistent, unemployed and -- before she knows it -- her lover. Ultimately their travels bring them to Bad Girl Creek, where the ladies know him as "Rotten Rick" and the waters have already been troubled.« less