The Thanksgiving Virgin

<P>Desperate lives collide on a cold November night as a yearlong Missouri tale culminates deep in the belly of a decade Ozark storm where one world ends and another begins.</P><P>A young man's parents disappear spilling him into the drug-running streets of Kansas City. He gathers a large sum for his troubles while struggling with addiction a weak heart and thoughts of going straight.</P><P>An Ozark bootlegger finds instant profit making white crystal in an earthen compound near a ranch close to the Arkansas line. He chases his next payday with a long-wanted murderer watching his back.</P><P>A wealthy Ozark rancher absorbs the reality of spending life without the guiding light of his one true love when a woman from nowhere appears in his small town.</P><P>A longtime ranch hand seeks full partnership holding off a banker and harboring a satchel of found money.</P><P>A sheriff in his last days of service struggles with courage facing the specter of a man who nearly killed him six years ago.</P><P>A quiet loner descends from the hilltops to settle a score leaving an isolated society to pick up the pieces after tragedy turns on one of its own.</P><P>. and then comes Thanksgiving.</P>