Tina Whittle

It's taken almost a year, but Tai Randolph has her new life together. She's running a semi-successful Atlanta gun shop catering to Civil War reenactors. Her lover, the sexy if security-obsessed Trey Seaver, is sorting out his challenges. There's not a single corpse on her horizon, and her previously haphazard existence is finally stable, secure ... and unsurprising. Then a tornado blows by a Kennesaw Mountain cemetery, scattering the skeletal remains...

Atlanta Private Investigator Tai Randolph, acting on her own, decides to take down the leader of a white militia splinter group once and for all after he tries to destroy both her life and the life of her ex-SWAT-team lover, Trey, which forces her to confront old memories and even older ghosts.

Tai decides some time out of Atlanta is exactly what she needs to put the recent spate of corpses behind her. Selling her wares at the Savannah Civil War Expo, attending a few Confederate re-enactments, perhaps a little romantic rendezvousing with Trey... But in the South, the past tends to rise again. In Tai's case, it shows up as her tattooed heartbreaker of an ex-boyfriend, desperate for her help. He spins a tale of betrayal, deceit, and a stolen...