Liberty, Texas, sounds like a good place for a story

Maybe the name of the place just sounds romantic to some writers, but whatever the reason, Liberty, Texas has been used as the setting for a number of recent novels.

Leaving Liberty, a Western Romance by Lisa Mondello was published for Amazon Kindle in April of this year. It is about a Texas Ranger named Jackson Gentry who comes to Liberty on an investigation and, as the title suggests, finds romance.

A two-book series by Rebecca De Madeiros called Brides of Liberty, Texas are also available through Amazon as paperbacks. A blurb for one of the books in that series, A Bargain Bride, reads, In a time when the west was wild. . . and the men were wilder. . . There came a challenge in the small town of Liberty, Texas. The objective in mind: Marriage. Bets are placed, and a race to the alter begins.

A science fiction novel, The Pure Land by Jonathan Howard, begins with the line, My name is Bryce Lliot and I was born in Liberty, Texas, the only child of the mayor.

Likewise, in 96, author Larry M. Brooks has his narrator begin life in Liberty. Growing up in Liberty, Texas, I learned at an early age that there were only two things that people respected: athletic prowess and street credibility. Growing up in Liberty, all of my role models were athletes, hustlers, gladiator-type figures, or a combination of the three.

In Liberty (A Redemption Novel), about a wounded Marine returning home from Afghanistan, author Ginger Jamison writes, In Liberty, Texas, women stood by their men. They took care of their husbands.

Kent Conwell has his characters in The Alamo Trail come from Liberty.

While not the setting for a story, Liberty was mentioned in the non-fiction Enriques Journey adapted for young readers by Sonia Nazario. It is about a Honduran boy searching for his family in the United States. It mentions Liberty when describing the deportation of minors:

Worse, he could sit in a Texas jail cell for months before the United States process the paperwork to deport him. There is a juvenile prison in Liberty, Texas forty-six miles northeast of Houston, where many minors who are captured trying to enter the United States alone and illegally are sent to await deportation.

Liberty, Texas even got a very brief mention in one of the most famous novels ever published. Jack Kerouac wrote in On the Road, We zoomed through Beaumont, over the Trinity River at Liberty, and straight for Houston.

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