In Baldwin County, the tide washes away a lot of things. But some secrets are too heavy to sink. For forty years, Chief Detective Bob Ballard has been the silent keeper of the Gulf Coast's darkest secrets. On the eve of his retirement, as he sits alone in the quiet of the Bay Minette archives, his life's work sits beside him in a battered cardboard banker’s box. To an outsider, the cold cases inside are entirely unrelated. But Bob knows how to read the landscape. From the sugar-white tourist traps of Orange Beach to the pitch-black, gothic swamps of the northern delta, every acre of Baldwin County is choked by the same corrupt roots. When an obsolete courthouse teletype machine suddenly sparks to life at midnight, spitting out a live stream of secret coordinates, the pieces of the puzzle violently slam together. The staged kidnapping on the Gulf, the poisoned soil of Elberta, the toxic mudslide of Daphne, and the sunken getaway car in the Perdido River aren’t random acts of greed—they are the bloody coordinates of a century-old conspiracy. A ruthless shadow syndicate of founding families is meeting tonight in Point Clear to finalize the theft of the coastline itself. With a tropical storm slamming into the coast and the local precincts compromised to the core, Bob must make one final, desperate run down the windswept peninsula. The syndicate has the money, the land, and the law. But Bob has the truth—and the ghosts of Mobile Bay are finally ready for their reckoning. Get your copy today and dive into the dark side of the Gulf Coast.