A mysterious letter beckons Tess to San Antonio, where she searches for a lost love -- and wonders why she lost him in the first place. Elizabeth Pincus, writing in the Village Voice Literary Supplement, said it best when she noted this novel "trolls the very nature of home, displacement, and longing in a history-spackled plot as big as, well, Texas." It's also my own salute to "The Wizard of Oz," which is often referenced in the Tess series. Tess, thrust into a strange place, finds counterparts to the true, loyal friends and family members back in Baltimore...