Look Unto the Land

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Riveting Story of Love Hate Greed and Thirst for Revenge in an Oil-Drenched 1920s Southern Boom Town</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Henry Grant returns home from WWI he finds his family decimated by violence death and debt. He blames it all on one man and aims to make him pay. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 1922 Henry follows the fellow from Indiana to Berrytown in southern Arkansas site of the nation's latest oil boom a good place to hide and a hard place to search. It's overflowing with lease hounds roughnecks drillers bootleggers and gamblers. Crime is rampant and the Ku Klux Klan is gearing up against booze prostitution and Black people. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meanwhile Mary Dutton a near-destitute Berrytown widow with a twelve-year-old son is struggling to survive. She works in a pharmacy where the owners - Mary's cousin Eunice and her husband - are forcing her to sell marijuana cocaine and heroin under the nose of federal agents.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Otis Leatherwood a farmer who is Mary's uncle and Eunice's estranged father likes moonshine and is unaware of the drug traffic. His problem is with the oil. He believes drilling is ruining the environment and he's willing to risk everything to stop it. Even though his best friend and Black neighbor Isaiah Watson sees it as a means of escaping bigotry in the South. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Berrytown grows apace and oil blackens the land each of them faces life-changing decisions. Read now and follow them as they encounter one surprising turn of events after another. </span></p>