Rivers Crossing - Hardcover

Jim H. Ainsworth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967948312 ISBN 13: 9780967948317

Publisher: Season of Harvest, 2005

Synopsis

This second in the Rivers Series of novels follows Jake Rivers and brother Gray Boy from the night when In the Rivers Flow ends. It is 2 a.m.--Summer 1956. Spooner Hays is face down in the mud in front of the Delta County Courthouse in Texas, drowning in his own blood. Gray Boy Rivers is in a jail cell thirty yards awy and four floors up when Spooner dies. Both are just out of high school. They were raised within ten miles of each other--worked together--played together--but lived in different worlds. Ivory Hays, Spooner's father, is called King Ivory because he is the self-appointed king of The Hollow, a bottomland area populated exclusively by people of color. He also wields considerable influence among whites. His son's death causes ripples that turn into waves for this tiny rural county. The waves threated to engulf the Rivers family. Buster Galt, fresh from Dallas successes as both a prosecutor and defense lawyer, has returned to his Delta County roots with reluctant son Cameron and a reclusive wife. Buster soon follows in his father's footsteps by winning election as district attorney. Rance Rivers and Buster Galt have old wounds that are mostly healed. Their sons, however, are making new ones. When Buster targets Gray Boy Rivers in his investigation of Spooner's death, the tension between the two families threatens to become a blood feud.

About this title

About the Author:

When dreams of being a rancher/cowboy collided with reality, necessity imprisoned Jim for eight years in corporate America and turned the cowboy into a bean-counter. The confinement awakened his long-suppressed entrepreneurial spirit and sent him out of urban surroundings back into the rural area of his youth, where he started two businesses. He eventually founded or co-founded ten startups. One was a CPA firm. Twelve years and a few thousand tax returns later, Jim s client interviews revealed a niche in the marketplace for financial planning. From a small town of less than 9,000, he spread his wings, filled that niche and made his mark. He was recognized as one of the most influential accountants in America and also reached similar pinnacles in the related field of financial planning. He scratched his cowboy itch with a western wear store, cowboy competitions, and a horseback trip across Texas. He is now ten years into his fifth career as the award-winning author of five non-fiction books and five novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Season of Harvest
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0967948312
• ISBN 13: 9780967948317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Dr. Fred Tarpley