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The Devil's Share: A Public Trust Legal Thriller
Paperback
Series: Public Trust, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 12 2025
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Mississippi Delta is a different world. It's a place of flat earth, black water, and secrets buried deep in the mud.
Harlin Banks knows better than to cross the Yazoo River. As a Public Defender, he knows that in the Delta, justice is just a word people use to disguise revenge.
But when a desperate grandmother dumps her life savings on his desk, Harlin takes the case of Elara Dunn, a nineteen-year-old waitress accused of the unthinkable: burning down the historic Calloway Hunting Lodge and murdering Lucas Calloway, the rebellious heir to a timber dynasty.
The Sheriff says it's an open-and-shut case of a lover's quarrel turned deadly. The county says it's justice.
Harlin says it's a cover-up.
To save Elara, Harlin and his team-Sam Rourke, the investigator who doesn't flinch, and Rosco Wheeler, the con man playing a dangerous game of undercover aristocracy-must enter Blackwood County, a personal kingdom ruled by Judge King Calloway.
Here, the Judge owns the land, the courts, and the truth. And his enforcer, Chief Deputy Vance Gentry, is a man who solves problems with a shotgun and a shovel.
As the team digs into the ashes of the fire, they uncover a secret older than the Calloway fortune-a document hidden for a century that proves the entire empire was built on stolen blood.
Now, Harlin isn't just fighting a murder charge. He's fighting a war against a dynasty that will burn the whole county down to keep its secrets.
Don't worry about the mule, just load the wagon.
The Public Trust is back. And this time, they're playing with fire.
Southern Noir at its finest. The Devil's Share drips with humidity, menace, and the kind of justice you have to steal to serve.
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