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Skeet's Cherokee grandmother has come to live with her and her teenage ward Brian, and Skeet is still trying to adjust to the change while also keeping the peace on the local college campus. Then Ash Mowbray, a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, comes back to Brewster as a wealthy developer, pushing plans to build a shopping mall on the outskirts of town that will destroy the town square businesses. The town council is split on his proposal, and emotions are running high.Mowbray makes things worse by announcing that he is the real father of the high school athlete Noah Steen, having left Noah's mother, Chelsea, pregnant as a teenager when he fled town after high school. Chelsea and her husband Norman are horrified that Mowbray has publicized that Norman is not Noah's father and afraid that he will steal their beloved son from them.
About the Author
Linda Rodriguez' has published Plotting the Character-Driven Novel, three novels in the Skeet Bannion mystery series, Every Hidden Fear (Latina Book Club Best Books 2014 and a Las Comadres National Latino Book Club selection) , Every Broken Trust (International Latino Book Award and a Las Comadres National Latino Book Club selection) , and Every Last Secret (winner of the Malice Domestic First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition and finalist for the International Latino Book Award) with the fourth Skeet novel, Every Family Doubt, forthcoming in June 2017, as well as two books of poetry, Heart's Migration (Tia Chucha Press) winner of the Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence and finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and Skin Hunger (Potpourri Publications; Scapegoat Press) . She edited Woven Voices: 3 Generations of Puertorriquena Poets Look at Their American Lives (Scapegoat Press) , second place, International Latino Book Award and co-edited with Diane Glancy the poetry anthology, The World Is One Place: Native American Poets Visit the Middle East (forthcoming February 2017) . She has also published a cookbook, The "I Don't Know How To Cook" Book: Mexican. Rodriguez received the Midwest Voices and Visions Award, Elvira Cordero Cisneros Award, ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Award, and Ragdale and Macondo fellowships, among others. She is the 2015 Chair of the AWP Indigenous/Aboriginal American Writers Caucus, immediate past president of Border Crimes chapter of Sisters in Crime, a founding board member of Latino Writers Collective and The Writers Place, and a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers, Kansas City Cherokee Community, and International Thriller Writers. Learn more about her books and events at http://lindarodriguezwrites.blogspot.com/
