In this return to New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke's Holland Family saga, Bessie Holland fights back against a ruthless employee of a local oil company as violence and greed seeps into her small Texas town Fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland is formidable and quick-witted, unflappable in the face of the Texas summer heat, the gun-slinging men in the local saloon, and her own alcoholic father, Francis Holland. But when she accidentally shoots an unarmed man to defend Francis, she begins to encounter danger closing in on all sides. The threats and deceit all lead back to the Atlas Oil Company, which has set up miles of oil derricks and sludge pits in the Holland's backyard and employs Indian Charlie, a menacing figure with a violent past. Luckily, she has a few allies: a brilliant suffragette English teacher who teaches Hawthorne and Keats and supports the coal miners' union, an eccentric, wry spirit-like figure who always seems to be just around the corner, and her older brother, Cody, who flees to New York and protects her when she follows him there. Bessie is up against terrifying-and perhaps supernatural-forces beyond her understanding. But she's a descendent of the Holland family; she can stand up to threats, and throw a few punches of her own. A welcome return to a beloved series and populated with characters both radiant and downright despicable, Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie is a resounding story of justice by the New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke. ".