C.J. Mouser is a 49 year-old, recently divorced mother of three grown children. A Texan by birth, she relocated to Florida in 1986. She has been a freelance writer since 2001, and has had columns printed in numerous newspapers, and magazines and has contributed to other periodicals, including collaborative short story collections.

Web Site: www.cjmouser.com

At eleven, Sarah is strong-willed and smart, but when a satchel stuffed with cash is dropped into her lap she finds herself and her young friends pitted against the 1970s southern drug cartel. Fighting to protect the money and themselves they use the only tools they have, grim determination, a knowledge of the elements of nature, and a little Texas savvy.