Lightwood, Steph Post
Lightwood, Steph Post
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Lightwood

Author: Steph Post

Narrator: Bradford Hastings

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/27/2018


Synopsis

Judah Cannon is the middle son of the notorious Cannon clan led by Sherwood, its unflinching and uncompromising patriarch. When Judah returns to his rural hometown of Silas, Florida, after a stint in prison, he is determined to move forward and live it clean with his childhood best friend and newly discovered love, Ramey Barrow. Everything soon spirals out of control, though, when a phone call from Sherwood ensnares Judah and Ramey in a complicated web of thievery, brutality, and betrayal.Pressured by the unrelenting bonds of blood ties, Judah takes part in robbing the Scorpions, a group of small-time meth-cooking bikers who are flying down the highway with the score of their lives. Unbeknownst to the Cannons, however, half of the stolen cash in the Harley saddlebags belongs to Sister Tulah, a megalomaniacal Pentecostal preacher who encourages her followers to drink poison and relinquish their bank accounts. When Sister Tulah learns of the robbery, she swears to make both the Cannons and the Scorpions pay, thus bringing all parties into mortal conflict rife with deception and unpredictable power shifts. When Judah’s younger brother Benji becomes the unwitting victim in the melee, Judah takes it upon himself to exact revenge, no matter the damage inflicted upon himself and those around him. Judah becomes a driven man, blinded by his need for vengeance and questioning everything he thought he believed in. With Ramey at his side, Judah is forced to take on both the Scorpions and Sister Tulah as he struggles to do the right thing in a world full of wrongs.

About Steph Post

Steph Post is the author of three acclaimed novels: A Tree Born Crooked, a semifinalist for the Big Moose Prize, and two novels featuring Judah Cannon: Lightwood and Walk in the Fire. Her short story “The Pallid Mask” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the writing coach at Howard W. Blake High School in Tampa, Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lloyd on April 05, 2016

This is an historical fiction novel, however it fairly accurately tells the real story of the "land war" that occurred in middle, south Georgia following the Civil War involving the conflicting interest between the long term "settlers" in the "pine barrens and the newly formed New York timber compan......more