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The Resort Between the Rivers Collection: including The Quiet Title
Paperback
Series: The Lighthorse Mysteries, Book 46
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 534
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Resort Between the Rivers Collection
A missing architect. A billion-dollar resort. A forgotten claim to land that was never truly quiet.
When Daniel Thompson, a Choctaw architect working with Chickasaw Nation Industries, travels to East Texas to explore the possibility of a major tribal resort development, he is expected to attend a routine meeting. Instead, he disappears.
His rental vehicle is found near a remote trailhead. His phone goes silent. His laptop is gone. At first, it looks like a search-and-rescue matter in the pine woods of East Texas. But Captain Hawk soon discovers that Thompson was not simply studying a resort. He was carrying a proposal that could shift the economic future of the Alabama-Coushatta, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Kickapoo nations - and disrupt powerful interests already watching the land.
As Hawk, Captain Frazier, and federal investigator Aaron Yazzie follow the clues, the case moves from tribal police offices and county roads to old title records, family histories, mineral interests, and the long memory of Native land. What began as a disappearance becomes something larger: a contest over sovereignty, development, money, and the question of who has the right to shape the future of a place.
In The Quiet Title, the mystery deepens into a legal and historical reckoning. The Thompson-McCoy line, the Mount Tabor community, and the buried record of those who lived between the Angelina and Neches Rivers all come into focus. A title claim meant to settle ownership instead exposes the fragile boundary between paper law and older truths.
Together, The Resort Between the Rivers Collection brings together modern tribal law enforcement, Native sovereignty, real estate intrigue, historical memory, and the moral weight of land itself.
For readers of regional mysteries, Native American historical fiction, legal suspense, and stories rooted in place, this collection follows Captain Hawk into a case where the most important witness may be the land - and where the past has not finished speaking.
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