Heaven, My Home

In this thrilling crime novel, Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child—but its the boys family of white supremacists who are his real target.

9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now hes alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him—and all goes dark.

Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, whos never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and shes not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage.

An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas—and some of the eras racial attitudes still thrive as well. Levis disappearance has links to Darrens last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boys grandmother, who seems more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her grandson.

Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, as he races to find the boy, and to save himself.

"Captivating" —People

A Best Book of the Year:
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Longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Book Prize