Product Description
"They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the Whirlwind." Whitney discovers that her mother, aunts, uncles and cousins did indeed sow the wind 50 years ago. The great family mystery explodes on the scene as the Carson family comes face to face with great evil. This fast moving tale set in the remote Blue Ridge mountains explodes with the very public murder of a septuagenarian serial killer who was standing beside his own fifty year old, empty grave. The murder sets off a chain of events which threaten the very fabric of the culture which these reclusive and clannish people have worked so hard to mold to their mountains. As the whirlwind emerges from the earth, it sweeps the current generation toward annihilation as killers from both generations move to protect their guilty secrets. Whitney and Trace must solve the fifty year old murder in order to solve the current day murder and lay the evil wind back into the earth. In the mountains, nothing is stronger than family, and nothing can be allowed to threaten that family. Even Whitney, the educated and aloof ex-patriot scion of the hills, learns that the blood of her ancestors runs hot in her veins as she is forced to rip the secret from her own mother's heart in order to find protection for her children.
rips the whirlwind from the earth and
rips the whirlwind from the earth and
About the Author
Meet the two halves of the writing team of JoAnn and Jim Carland. Scholar-Entrepreneurs, the Drs. Carland have written more than a dozen textbooks, more than 200 scholarly articles, started more than a dozen businesses, and are internationally known in the entrepreneurship literature. Formerly licensed private investigators in North Carolina, their fiction writing began with a mystery and detective series featuring two career weary college professors and focusing on plots evolved from actual cases which they investigated. The Carson family series begins with Hidden Malice. They branched out into international thrillers with Prometheus Unleashed, and its sequel, Killing in the Market, both fast paced, edge of your seat action dramas. Life partners since 1971, the Drs. Carland actually began their relationship in the first grade, when at the age of 6, Jim was caught shooting spit balls at JoAnn and had to spend the rest of the day standing in the corner. JoAnn likes to joke that their marriage actually meant that Jim did not have to pay back all the typing paper he borrowed during high school. When they trundled off to the University of Georgia to work on Ph.D. degrees, they had two sons, aged 2 and 4 at the time, and had to swap the boys in the parking lot as one or the other dashed off to class. That was more than a dozen ventures ago, spanning software development to forensic investigation, and their many experiences have enriched their story telling. You may visit them at their personal website, www.TheDrsCarland.com.
