Dark Heat

<p><em>Starr Wyman is hedged in on all sides: caring for her war-broken brother tormented by her crooked father still in mourning for the disappearance of her mother. Her father the Bible-quoting Wint Wyman dismisses her herbalist work as witchcraft but when a body drops and her brother is responsible Wint calls on Starr to make the corpse disappear.</em></p><p><em>Enter the mysterious Jase Patton hunting an ivory artifact owned by Wint Wyman. Starr agrees to help Jase recover the piece in exchange for a new life far away. But neither Jase nor the treasure are all that they seem and Starr must deal with a wound no herbal treatment can cure.</em></p><p><br></p>