In the Great Quiet by Laura Vogt

In the Great Quiet

A Novel

Laura Vogt

Amazon Publishing · Print & ebook · April 1, 2026

A pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home.

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Who it’s for
Readers interested in historical frontier life and pioneer stories
Themes
frontier survival, secrets and past reconciliation, search for home
Pacing
Steady

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A pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home. A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893. Amid the crowd is Minnie Hoopes. Tenacious and fiercely independent, she is determined to endure the brutal frontier and create a life of her own.

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Guarding her solitude, she distances herself from bordering homesteaders and finds peace under the starry nights of the vast frontier. But this is outlaw country, and Minnie soon has the blood of two gunfighters on her hands. After a renegade outlaw named Stot discovers her secrets, she forms an unlikely friendship with him. With each passing season, Minnie’s past grows more haunting and threatens the future she has risked everything to build. Minnie raced into the Wild West alone, but her grandest journey in the frontier wilderness is one she never saw coming. Based on the true story of the author’s great-great-grandparents, this sweeping and transportive survival story explores a woman’s connection with the land, her reconciliation with the past, and her elemental search for home against all odds. Settle in, I’ve stories to tell.

Who it’s for

  • Readers interested in historical frontier life and pioneer stories
  • Fans of strong female protagonists in Western settings

Where it sits

Western Romance69%
Westerns63%
19th-Century Historical Fiction50%

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Publisher categories

  • Historical Fiction
  • 19th-Century Historical Fiction
  • American Historical Romance
Authors
Laura Vogt
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Published
April 1, 2026
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
frontier survival · secrets and past reconciliation · search for home
Reading lane
Historical Fiction