Something in the Water - Couverture souple

Dixon, Phyllis R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496754190 ISBN 13 : 9781496754196

Editeur : Dafina, 2025

Synopsis

Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a California native and her family make a fresh start in small-town Texas—and find trouble just beneath the promising surface . . .

As director of an award-winning investigative news radio show, Billie Jordan is used to dealing with trouble. But when the radio station is sold, she’s suddenly jobless and in need of money to help her son recover from an accident-related opioid addiction. When her husband gets a professorship at an HBCU in his hometown, Billie makes the best of their move South. All seems well—until severe storms cause massive destruction and contaminate the town’s water supply—making it unsafe to drink.

With some digging, Billie learns that the water issues are on-going. But soon, the old guard accuses her of sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong—and it doesn’t seem like a coincidence when she starts losing job opportunities. When she tries to expose the crisis in the local newspaper, even HBCU administrators—including her husband—quash her efforts. Undeterred, Billie discovers a shocking
cover-up: millions of dollars intended to solve the problem have disappeared or been redirected. Worse, her sister-in-law is on the water commission . . .

Billie is fast learning that decades-old connections between money, power, and family, flow deeper and darker in this town than any underground system. With her son’s health and her marriage at stake she’ll need all her resources and skills to save them and bring down the corruption . . . if a conspiracy doesn't drown her first.

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À propos de l'auteur

Phyllis R. Dixon is the acclaimed author of Intermission, Forty Acres, and Down Home Blues, which was shortlisted for the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List by the Texas Library Association. She also is a contributor to the New Tri-State Defender book review column and to Chicken Soup for the African American Woman’s Soul. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she is a former independent bookstore owner, previously worked for the U.S. Treasury Department, and currently serves on several nonprofit boards. She currently lives in Memphis, Tennessee, and can be found online at PhyllisRDixon.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dafina
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496754190
• ISBN 13: 9781496754196
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Kensington Publishing Corporation; http://www.wmg.com/; ; 1633 Broadway ; New York, NY 10019 ; Etats-Unis
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