The Legends of Ryland Creek: Book III of the Ryland Creek Saga (new soft cover)
Young Sharon “Lill” Ernst finds solace in the woodlands of her rural hometown of Painted Post. With her family, Lill has grown up following their coonhounds in the nighttime forests.
Andrew Renthro, orphan but heir apparent to a vast empire of drug dealers, has been ordered to prove his worthiness. Andrew leaves his native Chicago—a teen who eagerly seeks revenge for a father he never knew—and his success means destroying the unsuspecting Ernst family.
But the forests of Painted Post don’t belong solely to the realm of man. Stories of guiding spirits, ghostly hounds, and hideous beasts abound in this mystical place of wooded hollows, streams, and pathways.
For many trails converge and diverge in these oak-strewn hills.
Some paths lead to redemption. . . while others may end in certain doom.
But all have the potential to become legend.