An eshort story introduces readers to Brian Panowich's brutal, mesmerizing North Georgia landscape, in preparation for Like Lions (4/30/19)."No king lives forever, and Gareth was getting old."Enter the world of Brian Panowich, where Gareth Burroughs runs McFalls county, in north Georgia, and all the criminal enterprises therein. Two of his three sons, Halford and Buckley, are aiming to follow in his footsteps. The third, Clayton, has turned his back on the family and become a lawman, a sheriff in town. In Bull Mountain, the brothers' inevitable confrontation will change life in the county forever. In Like Lions, the last man standing, Clayton, must finally reckon with his heritage, and with the expectations of everyone left in his father's and brothers' organization. But before Bull Mountain, before Like Lions, there was "The Broken King," and a final confrontation on a very cold night. Views: 167
"A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth." —David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower MoonThe stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience... Views: 167
In the end, love rules all.
An ancient curse may have foretold their meeting, but Skye doubts even her ancestors could have predicted the suffering she and Lucas would face at the hands of their enemy.
Kidnapped, tortured, and cut-off from everyone, it won’t be long before the bright spark of love keeping Skye alive burns out.
Lucas won’t give up his search until he saves her, but Skye hopes he never finds her. If he does, the one vision she’s been trying to stop will finally come to fruition. She would give anything, including her life, to keep that from happening.
The stakes are higher than ever before, and the only thing standing in the Druid’s way is the man Skye can’t afford to lose.
* Visions of Triumph is book 3 in The Gypsy’s Curse series (previously the Cursed Hearts series) and was previously released as Supernova*
Recommended for ages 18+ due to adult language, content, and scenes with graphic violence.
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