Duke Masters: Old Testament, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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The water remembers everything.

When Frederick Smith dies suddenly at his kitchen table, his estranged sons, Ryan and Dale, are forced into the same room for the first time in four years.

While sorting through what their father left behind, they discover a sealed envelope hidden inside an old shoebox. It contains the deed to twelve acres of forgotten waterfront property in Clinchfield, Florida-a town that appears on almost no map.

Its crops never fail. Its homes never flood. Its population has barely changed in more than a century. And everyone in Clinchfield seems to know the Smith family name.

Some welcome the brothers like long-lost relatives.

Others look at them as if a debt has finally come due.

County records refuse to acknowledge their land. Missing-person cases vanish almost as quickly as the people themselves. The local church promises that all are fed, but nobody will explain what is being fed-or why the Smith family has been bound to Clinchfield for generations.

Then Ryan and Dale hear the name whispered near the black water.

Old Testament.

The townspeople call it a blessing. Reverend Leb calls it salvation. But beneath the swamp waits something ancient, patient, and far larger than any alligator has a right to be.

With the help of journalist Serenity Vine, the brothers uncover a bargain that has protected Clinchfield from storms, famine, and disease for more than one hundred years-a covenant written in blood, sustained by faith, and kept alive through sacrifice.

Now the town is preparing for Founder's Day.

Ryan and Dale did not inherit land. They inherited their family's place in the offering.

Trapped in a town where every smile conceals a warning and every road leads back to the water, the brothers must decide whether they can trust one another long enough to break a covenant their ancestors were too frightened to defy.

Because Old Testament has never allowed a debt to go unpaid.

From Duke Masters comes a Southern Gothic nightmare of broken brotherhood, inherited sin, religious fanaticism, and the terrible things people will worship when fear begins calling itself faith.