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From author J. Todd Scott comes a haunting thriller about a young
plane crash survivor and a mysterious hiker who venture into the
wilderness to escape a dark and vengeful force. A small white plane
hurtles from the sky, vanishing into the wilderness. Hiker Maggie
Roby watches its final descent, certain that no one could have
survived. But to her shock, a fifteen-year-old girl emerges from
the wreckage, wounded but miraculously, impossibly alive. Maggie
approaches with trepidation; she has secrets of her own, a past she
can’t escape. Saving the girl means risking her future, but she
can’t just abandon her, can she? With the young survivor, Maggie
embarks on a dangerous trek through the remote Appalachian
backcountry, joining up with two veterans from the local
sheriff’s department who know the land better than anyone. But
even as Maggie charts their course through the mountains, she can
sense someone—or something—else watching and waiting. Their
journey is about more than enduring the elements. It’s about
escaping a sinister presence that makes a vast wilderness feel like
it’s closing in.
From J. Todd Scott comes a chillingly engrossing thriller about a
cult survivor who must confront the horrors of her past to ensure
the safety of the future. Ten years after a fiery raid kills her
family, former cult member Sybilla "Billie" Laure has a completely
new identity. She's settled in rural Colorado with her daughter,
hoping for a quieter life. But the world has other plans. With
wildfires raging and birds dropping from the sky, Billie wonders if
her cult leader father's apocalyptic predictions are finally coming
true. When an intruder murders her husband and kidnaps her
daughter, Billie has no choice but to confront the secrets of her
past. But Billie's journey has other perils, too-namely, a police
chief hot on her trail, determined to expose the dangers of the
defunct doomsday cult. To save her daughter, Billie will have to go
back to where it all began-to the ruined compound in New Mexico
where the real threat is the truth.
"[So] good I wish I'd written it. The poetic and bloody ground of
west Texas has given birth to a powerful new voice in contemporary
western crime fiction." --Craig Johnson, New York Times-bestselling
author of the Walt Longmire series In this gritty crime debut set
in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a
small town into violent turmoil. Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is
adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more
than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small
Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted
sheriff's deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly
returned to his hometown. When skeletal remains are discovered in
the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together as
their efforts to uncover Murfee's darkest secrets lead them to the
same terrifying suspect: Caleb's father and Chris's boss, the
charismatic and feared Sheriff Standford "Judge" Ross. Dark,
elegiac, and violent, The Far Empty is a modern Western, a story of
loss and escape set along the sharp edge of the Texas border. Told
by a longtime federal agent who knows the region, it's a debut
novel you won't soon forget.
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Lost River (Paperback)
J Todd Scott
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Even though the corrupt Sheriff Ross is dead and gone, outlaws
still walk free, peace comes at a price, and redemption remains
hard to find in this fiery and violent novel from the author of The
Far Empty. Sometimes we have to be wolves... In the wake of Sheriff
Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry--now Sheriff
Cherry--is the new "law" in Big Bend County, yet he still struggles
to escape the long, dark shadow of that infamous lawman. As Chris
tries to remake and modernize his corrupt department, bringing in
new deputies, including young America Reynosa and Ben Harper--a
hard-edged veteran homicide detective now lured out of
retirement--he finds himself constantly staring down a town
unwilling to change, friends and enemies unable to let go of the
past, and the harsh limits of his badge. But it's only when a local
Rio Grande guide is brutally and inexplicably murdered, and America
and Ben's ongoing investigation is swept aside by a secretive
federal agent, that the novice sheriff truly understands just how
tenuous his hold on that badge really is. And as other new threats
rise right along with the unforgiving West Texas sun, nothing can
prepare Chris for the high cost of crossing dangerous men such as
John Wesley Earl, a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood of
Texas and the patriarch of a murderous clan that's descended on
Chris's hometown of Murfee; or Thurman Flowers, a part-time pastor
and full-time white supremacist hell-bent on founding his violent
Church of Purity in the very heart of the Big Bend. Before long,
Chris, America, and Ben are outmaneuvered, outnumbered, and
outgunned--inexorably drawn into a nearly twenty-year vendetta that
began with a murdered Texas Ranger on a dusty highway outside of
Sweetwater, and that can only end with fire, blood, and bullets in
Murfee's own sun-scorched streets... Welcome back to the Big
Bend...
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