Black diamond

Jena Sinclair works as a wildlife agent in Louisiana, and the bayou around Pointe-aux-Chenes is where she goes to be left alone. A tragedy in her past scarred her skin and shook her badly, and the water and marsh are the one place she can nearly put it aside.

That calm ends when another fisherman's remains are found. The deaths are unexplained, and Jena begins to see that the bayou is dangerous for her and for everyone who works its waters.

A second threat runs alongside the first. A drug called Black Diamond is spreading through Terrebonne Parish and turns its users into unpredictable sociopaths. Jena's inquiries into both problems lead her to Cole Ryan, a reclusive, guarded man with a troubled history of his own.

Cole knows more than he admits. This is a romantic suspense novel with a Louisiana swamp setting, and the pair have to work together to stop the killer. To do it, each must come out from behind a painful past and accept the other's help, or the danger in the bayou will take them both.