The magnolias at LeClair Manor had not bloomed in seven years. Beau sat on the veranda, watching kudzu consume the columns his grandfather had carved from live oak, and tried to remember what it felt like to belong to a house that belonged to someone.
Louisiana heat pressed down like a wet wool blanket. Beau LeClair was thirty-one years old, the last son of a family that had once controlled ten thousand acres and three hundred souls, and currently controlled a debt of approximately forty thousand dollars and a house that was slowly sinking into the bayou beneath it. The device arrived in a plain wooden crate with no return address. Inside...
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