Scars of Sand and Soil

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>What's left of a man's soul when everything he loves is taken from him? </em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>It's 1864 and Gabriel Cooper couldn't care less about the civil war raging around him. Framed for crimes he didn't commit he's been sentenced to a Confederate chain gang where swampland justice rules and alligators prey on the unwary. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>So when Colonel Robert Tremont rides into camp offering freedom in exchange for fighting on the front lines Gabriel jumps at the opportunity. He thrives as a soldier but the end of the war leaves him adrift. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Gabriel ends up in New Orleans where he meets Simone Livingston a fiercely independent woman with hidden scars of her own. Kept on a tight rein by her overbearing father Simone only wants freedom-and the enigmatic Gabriel. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>But Gabriel has unfinished business and a mind for vengeance. Will he be able to create a peaceful life with Simone? Or will his greed and thirst for retribution keep them trapped in a dangerous web of deceit-a web Gabriel fears can only be untangled with murder?</span></p>