The Passion Of Belle Rio

The Gulf coast paradise of Belle Rio is threatened by anger, fear, greed, and murder - tragic consequences of a desperate secret passion. Belle Rio is as comic, absurd, and violent, as it is beautiful.

Jack McCutcheon, lost in Belle Rio, is haunted by the father he never knew and the memory of his mother disappointed in love.

As Jack struggles to reclaim his life, he is tempted by attorney Francois Taghert who exudes the chill of forbidden knowledge; embraced by local patriarch Bud Hardaway whose enthusiasm for life will destroy everyone around him; seduced by Terri Cates in search of her destiny on the Wheel of Fortune; and challenged to confront the truth by Andrew Percy, owner of a Panama City strip club, and friend to Jai Alai gamblers, federal court judges, and redneck gangsters.

Belle Rio is the memory of love, the gravity of passion, the inevitability of blood, and the irony of fate.