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Jodi Weathers was stunned when the mayor of Sandy Shoals offered her the job of police chief. She had grown up along the coast of Georgia and it would mean returning to an area she loved, but her first inclination was to refuse. She didn’t feel qualified even when the mayor described her duties as writing reports and shaking hands. “The Sheriff’s Department will take care of the real police work,” he assured her. “You’ll be handling public relations.” At the time the mayor had no warning of the approaching hurricane, and he couldn’t have foreseen finding a dead woman on the ...

Retired detective Tobias “Swede” Atkins is in for a rollercoaster ride. Battling post-coma challenges, a perplexing ex-wife, and accusations of arson, his world spirals into a tangled web of suspicions and doubts. As he navigates a town on the edge of chaos, a woman’s desire to turn a restaurant into a battleground unravels a historic murder and concealed secrets fanned by the mountain’s fiery whispers. Swede discovers the past haunts the present and truth is as elusive as mountain winds.

Tobias ‘Swede’ Atkins isn’t doing well. He’s still officially a detective with the Kalanu County Sheriff’s department, but sometimes he has blackouts and it’s an effort to tie his own shoelaces. A year long coma left his body weak, and his mind confused. Everyone knows he’s a step away from retirement. Until a child is kidnapped. With both the National Guard and the Sheriff’s department frantically searching, how can a crippled detective help? He can if he knows more about Kalanu Mountain than anyone alive, and especially when he realizes the secret to the child’s ...