Normally, Buck Creek, North Carolina and Tampa, Florida, would not have much in common. Not so in the case of the murder of Jefferson Comstock Jr. of Comstock Land Developers headquartered in Tampa. Shot and killed while acquiring property in Buck Creek for the Logan Lake Condominiums, Junior's influential father insists on the Tampa PD sending help to the local sheriff, Roy Harper, in Buck Creek. Sheriff Roy's friend, former NYPD officer and now Atlanta Private Investigator Taylor McCann, is in Buck Creek on vacation to "do a little trout fishing." Thea Mikos is from the Greek community of...

The Reverend Holder had never even heard of Sweetwater until fate drew him to the small southeast Arizona town while on his way to California from New Jersey. The circumstances he would encounter there would forever change his life. Greed, and corruption, along with a lack of any real law enforcement, had made Sweetwater an unsafe environment for young families with dreams of futures in the new west. One man, silver mine owner and rancher Jackson Cole, controlled most of Sweetwater. Unaccustomed to challenges to his authority, Cole quickly finds himself at odds with the reverend. Astride his...