Echoes of Thundersnow - GERALDINE POWELL - Bog

Bombs. Bullets. Blood. Boyfriends. Private investigator Morgan Pike is back. She has broken a solemn resolution to keep her head down and never again take a case in the Blue Ridge Mountains.Eighteen months ago, while hunting a missing young woman she stumbled into a nest of virulent survivalists. They tried to kill her. She triumphed but had to be stitched back together and was left with raging PTSD. She swore to keep to the flat lands. Do her job. No drama. No crisis. No more Blue Ridge Mountains. Catch insurance cheats and the occasional adulterer. No more chasing crazy hillbillies. No more being shot at.Pay the bills, mark time for another five months and get her law license back. Then dump the P.I. business with its danger and crappy pay. She'd been living small, surviving on hamburger helper and pinto beans for years. A few more months would be a piece of cake. Great plan but...A declined debit card, a shrinking bank balance and looming rent made accepting a high-dollar job offer in those mountains attractive. It was supposed to be a straightforward surveillance and video job, but the southern Appalachians hide more dangers than meth cookers and survivalists. She now faces the deadliest challenge of her life.