On a chilly October morning, Barrett "Bear" Raines finds himself on the campground of Linton Loyd, one of the richest men in Florida, watching Linton clean his latest catch. Barrett does not understand why he, an African-American detective for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, has been i...
A pall of tar and timber smothered the usual aroma of pine needles and damp earth. Jack was nursing his first beer since coming to this godless place, the first alcohol of any kind that he’d seen since the beginning of his indenturement. He hunkered over a mason jar of homebrew, sitting at the ba...