Tyranny Begins

Detective Audrey Durant appreciates the AmericanRevolutionary War tactics of General Francis Marion-strike at night,then vanish into the swamp. So when assigned to investigate the murderof attorney Jeremy Wade, Audrey readies herself for a guerilla-stylehunt.

Wade had hidthe truth, obscuring hislife with private trickery and leaving everyonein the dark. He had finessed his way into a position of influence,scaling the barrier that, more often than not, keeps the less mighty out.Faced with the challenge, Audrey launches an incursion to uncover thesecrets that Wade had used to catapult himself from obscurity into theworld of the powerful. What she discovers puts her in an ethical dilemmaand in need of a Swamp Fox offensive.

In Tyranny Begins, heroine Audrey Durant unscrambles the covertlife of Jeremy Wade, drawing on her fascination with South Carolina'scolorful history and finding echoes and clues from thepast in the realities and characters of the current-day case.