From life on cattle ranches to the drawing rooms of the wealthy, from the bedrooms of bawdy houses to the wooden platforms of a tent colony, Mary Ellen Dennis paints not only rooms but intimate portraits of the husbands, wives, sons and daughters who walked their spaces. From parlor girl, pauper and profligate, she brings these characters alive. Blending love, hate, passion, greed, self-sacrifice, human frailty and strength, Heaven's Thunder is an authentic tapestry of its time.