The Copperhead Club

Stella Jasper a self-centered free-spending socialite in suburban McLean Virginia is jolted into reality when her husband a well-connected Washington lobbyist abruptly disappears and leaves her cash-strapped snubbed by her friends and under investigation by the FBI. Angered and on her own she slips away incognito and follows his trail to a small town in the Kentucky mountains where she meets B. J. Matson a local man who has been a lifelong loner. Together they unexpectedly play a behind-the-scenes role in solving a mystery that fuels a major scandal in the White House and throws the presidential election campaign into disarray. Set in Washington D.C. and rural Kentucky the book provides a vivid portrayal of characters in both places.