title: Sweet Olive
author: Christie, Judy
description: What happens when a unique Southern town collides with the "outside world" and Big Oil?
  
  In Sweet Olive, author Judy Christie introduces a charming cast of characters in small town Louisiana. A talented business woman in the oil and gas business, Camille Gardner agrees to take on one last assignment for her uncle at the J&S Production Co. She would rather be anywhere than Samford, La., the small Southern town where she once spent the worst month of her life. Most of all, she wants to move on to the art gallery job that is waiting for her in Denver.
  
  To fulfill the obligation she feels to her uncle, Camille needs to entice a group of rural landowners to sell their mineral rights---and allow use of their precious water for the drilling of natural gas. Instead, she finds herself drawn to the local folk art created by those same landowners and attracted to Marsh Cameron, the attorney representing the landowners.
  
  Camille must decide whether family obligation---and her own plans for her future---are more important than the lives and tradition of this small community.