Sever the Darkness: Conflict along the Guadalue

Murder, romance, racial unrest, environmental concerns, tourism and oil interests swirl along the Guadalupe River in this suspenseful novel set in the Texas Hill Country. When Clay Aker returned home after Central American drug lords murdered his family, he didn't expect to find himself immersed in the random killing of tourists on the peaceful Guadalupe River. After landing a job as a journalist, his editor sends Clay to cover the increasing tension between conservationists and developers over environmental issues in the Hill Country. Clay unexpectedly encounters Mary Frances Wiley, a young widow who operates a canoe livery on the river. Drought conditions have lowered tourism visits and her revenue stream to the point she cannot pay the bank note. She is battling to keep her land from being sold to oil interests bent on using pipeline right-of-way to pump oil across the fragile Hill Country. The physical attraction between these two causes sexual tension throughout the novel. Clay meets Sharkbait Guy, an experienced outdoors writer, who helps Clay with his assignment. The body of a brutally slashed teenager is discovered on the river. The Hispanic girl who was with him is missing. Her uncle, Deputy Sheriff Julio Ramirez, is on a personal quest to find his niece. He has eyewitness testimony that the leader of a local gang threatened to kill the boy seen with his niece and is searching the area for evidence of the Banditos. Deputy Ramirez is also engaged with battling prejudices within the department while racked with worry about his wife who lingers in a hospital, brain-shot from an ambush meant for him. Sharkbait, Deputy Ramirez, Mary Frances and Clay team up to thwart the oil interest takeover of her land and to uncover the killer. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

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• Published by

  BookBaby

• Publish Date

  May 31, 2003 

• eBook ISBN

  9781618421791

• Imprint

  BookBaby

• Filesize

  780.76 KB

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