They framed him for murder and took his badge. They should have taken his lockpicks.
New readers welcome—the central mystery stands alone. Returning readers will find the relationships they know and love continuing to deepen.
Sheriff Tom Bracken thought Cypress Run had finally found its footing. New bank. Booming river port. An expanding clinic. A whole town willing to trust him.
But when a Treasury inspector turns up murdered and incriminating ledgers vanish from his locked office, Tom becomes the prime suspect in a conspiracy he was trying to expose. The men framing him wear government authority like armor. They remember Chicago, and they know exactly how to make him break.
While Tom is stripped of his badge and locked behind bars, Ellie faces a town splitting down the middle. Lies spread faster than truth, and the Brackens discover the conspiracy reaches far beyond Cypress Run. It has already taken families, shattered lives, and now it's coming for theirs.
With Ellie fighting to hold their family together, Tom must find a way to outmaneuver men who can turn the law itself against him—before they take the town, his family, and everything he's fought to build.
Cypress Blood, the third book in The Cypress Run Quartet, is a frontier romantic mystery thriller about loyalty, sacrifice, and the family you refuse to lose. Also shootouts, kitchen knives, and righteous fury. And gators. Mustn't forget the alligators.
