Out Of The Ruins

Of all the aristocratic dynasties that once reigned over Georgia's Cumberland Island, only the Hill family survives. Now they too are threatened. Charlotte, the family matriarch, has died suddenly and mysteriously, leaving her sister-in-law, Hannah, to protect the unspoiled paradise. But Hannah's own health is precarious, and the younger generation doesn't share the family devotion to the land. Even the island folk, some as venomous as Cumberland diamondbacks, have their eyes on the Hill house.

Archivist and family friend Ben Reese knows, however, that appearances can be deceiving. And murder can seem so easy and so right when it gets you want you desperately crave.