A five-hundred-year-old mystery and a twenty-year-old murder haunt Hannah Smith in a stunning
adventure by the author of the New York Times-bestselling Doc Ford novels. A fishing guide and
part-time investigator Hannah Smith is a tall strong Florida woman descended from many
generations of tall strong Florida women. But the problem before her now is much older even
than that. And its consequences are lethal. Five hundred years ago Spanish conquistadors
planted the first orange seeds in Florida but now the billion-dollar industry is in trouble.
The trees are dying weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation and the only solution
might be somehow somewhere to find sample of the original root stock. No one is better
equipped to traverse the swamps and murky backcountry of Florida than Hannah but once word
leaks out of her quest the trouble begins. There are people who will kill to find a direct
descendant of those first seeds she is warned--and it looks like those words may be all too
prophetic. That is if the secrets she discovers in the Florida wild about a twenty-year-old
murder don't kill her first. Or the fifteen-foot-long Burmese python.
