"The gunfire. Seeing Granddad bent over the body with his gun in his hand. . . What had she seen and heard?"
Confused
beyond measure, Avery Elliott is stunned to think that her beloved
grandfather had anything to do with a dead body. The entire incident was
very strange and more than a bit unsettling, for the famed senator's
influence on her life over the years had been consistently honest and
moral. Now Avery was worried that the discrepancy she'd recently
uncovered in a billing statement for their family enterprise, Elliott
Commercial Construction, was connected somehow; in the meantime her
grandfather was volunteering very little information . . . before he
went into hiding.
"But I
want you to contact Houston FBI Special Agent Marc Wilkins and tell him
everything you saw and heard. Do so in person. Leave nothing out."
Remarkably,
or providentially, Marc Wilkins' father had been a friend of Senator
Elliott. "Had" being the predominant term, for Marc's father had not
only been absent for most of his life, but he had recently died under
rather suspicious circumstances. When Avery shows up in Marc's office
with her eyewitness report, she sets off a complicated series of
criminal activities. It seems no one is safe . . . including those in
the path of a potentially compromised dam . . . for a raging hurricane
is in the forecast.
Perhaps a bit overwritten? Quite an
intriguing story, but one that went around in so many circles that
everyone and anyone was suspect; and then actually not a suspect, only
to become a suspect again. Where was the "concrete evidence"? Of course
everything fit together in the end, a very dramatic ending as a matter
of fact; one that matched the intensity of the beginning, which had
successfully drawn the reader into the story in the first place.
*I purchased this book and was under no obligation to provide a positive review. 3.5 stars
BackCover Blurb:
On the family’s Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather’s commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she’s always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery’s just discovered a billing discrepancy for materials supposedly purchased for construction of the Lago de Cobre Dam.
Desperate for answers, Avery contacts FBI Special Agent Marc Wilkins for help. As Marc works to identify the dead man Avery saw, threats toward Avery create a fresh sense of urgency to pinpoint why someone wants to silence her. With a hurricane approaching the Texas coast and the structural integrity of the Lago de Cobre Dam called into question, time is running out to get to the bottom of a sinister plot that could be endangering the lives of not only Avery and her loved ones but the entire community.
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