Delta Heat

The Delta flows inside its people—cut it, and they bleed. Threaten it, and they fight. She didn't plan to come back. She had to. Environmental attorney Amy Holt steps off a Greyhound in Yazoo City into air thick with diesel and honeysuckle and everything she buried years ago. A billion-dollar pipeline is coming—steel through wetlands her grandfather called sacred. She's here to stop it. She won't fight alone. Ms. Evangeline Dupree has rattled courthouse walls for fifty years, her voice carrying the Delta's long memory. Leah Dubois is seventeen and already ungovernable. Together, they build something the pipeline company never accounted for. Then there's Daniel Garcia, a Houston lobbyist for the opposition. He arrived seeing profit where Amy sees loss, and he is not what she expected. What happens between them is neither slow nor inconvenient, unlike the river—the battle migrates from courtrooms to occupied ground to church suppers, where alliances shift between hymns.___Raw and morally alive—where love is a liability, land is a cause, and nothing burns hotter than a fight for what matters.