(028121) Payne, David. Ruin Creek. New York: Doubleday, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 373 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. The author was born in North Carolina. This novel takes place in 1954 in Killdeer, North Carolina, and May Tilley, a beautiful young debutante, decides that she wants a different life from what Mamma and Daddy had ISBN: 0385264186
