THE RIVER HOLDS THE GOLD. THE MOUNTAIN HOLDS THE GRUDGE.
Jax Stone knows the rules of the Stone Creek valley: you don't fight the current, and you don't dig up the past. A local guide with a history of broken bones and a heavily mortgaged ranch, Jax wants only to protect the pristine wilderness that is his cathedral. But silence is dead in the valley. The roar of illegal generators and the stench of diesel have brought a new breed of predator to the mountains—mercenaries who aren't just panning for dust, but fracking the earth to bleed the river dry.
Tessa, a brilliant but by-the-book USGS hydrologist, came for the data, not a war. When her instruments detect lethal levels of mercury and a plot to inject cyanide directly into the water table, she becomes a target. The law is too slow. The data doesn't matter when you're staring down the barrel of a rifle.
Forced into an unlikely alliance, the roughneck and the scientist must go off the grid and underground. Their mission: use unstable, eighty-year-old dynamite to trigger a surgical strike against the operation before the poison hits the aquifer.
From the suffocating darkness of flooded mine shafts to the terrifying open sights of a sniper's scope in a frozen ghost town, Jax and Tessa are running out of time.
But the enemy has forgotten the most dangerous variable of all. They aren't just fighting a man and a woman. They are waking up the mountain. And when the White Dragon wakes, nothing survives the slide.
"A pulse-pounding eco-thriller that hits like a plunge in glacial water. Perfect for fans of C.J. Box and Nevada Barr."
Genre: Western
Jax Stone knows the rules of the Stone Creek valley: you don't fight the current, and you don't dig up the past. A local guide with a history of broken bones and a heavily mortgaged ranch, Jax wants only to protect the pristine wilderness that is his cathedral. But silence is dead in the valley. The roar of illegal generators and the stench of diesel have brought a new breed of predator to the mountains—mercenaries who aren't just panning for dust, but fracking the earth to bleed the river dry.
Tessa, a brilliant but by-the-book USGS hydrologist, came for the data, not a war. When her instruments detect lethal levels of mercury and a plot to inject cyanide directly into the water table, she becomes a target. The law is too slow. The data doesn't matter when you're staring down the barrel of a rifle.
Forced into an unlikely alliance, the roughneck and the scientist must go off the grid and underground. Their mission: use unstable, eighty-year-old dynamite to trigger a surgical strike against the operation before the poison hits the aquifer.
From the suffocating darkness of flooded mine shafts to the terrifying open sights of a sniper's scope in a frozen ghost town, Jax and Tessa are running out of time.
But the enemy has forgotten the most dangerous variable of all. They aren't just fighting a man and a woman. They are waking up the mountain. And when the White Dragon wakes, nothing survives the slide.
"A pulse-pounding eco-thriller that hits like a plunge in glacial water. Perfect for fans of C.J. Box and Nevada Barr."
Genre: Western
Used availability for June Wilder's River of Gold