
A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love race & justice from a writer & producer of the Emmy winning Fox TVChannel 4 show Empire' Dazzlingly good a seriously impressive writer' Observer Southern fables usually go the other way around A white woman is killed or harmed in some way real or imagined & then like the moon follows the sun a black man ends up dead But when it comes to law & order East Texas plays by its own rules
- a fact that Darren Mathews a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59 knows all too well Deeply ambivalent about his home state he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could Until duty called him home So when allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy he is drawn to a case in the small town of Lark where two dead bodies washed up in the bayou First a black lawyer from Chicago & then three days later a local white woman & it's stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment Darren must solve the crimes
- & save himself in the process
- before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt