“[because this is texas] will knock your hat in the creek.”
—The Dallas Morning News
A man walks free from two cold-blooded murders, acquitted by a jury of his peers.
"Why?" a reporter asks a juryman.
"Because this is Texas."
Written by a family descendant with exclusive access to private archives, Clara Sneed’s non-fiction account of the Sneed-Boyce feud—now published for the first time in book form—tells of a love affair so passionate it blinded the lovers to any mere commonsense concerns, of three families and a society consumed by the fallout, and of a marriage that ultimately survived adultery.
And those two murders.
Because This is Texas is a non-fiction account of the same dramatic story told in Sneed’s recently released historical fiction, Before We Turn to Dust (December 2024), a shocking and colloquial piece of literary Americana.
From former special operator Sean Hagerty comes Book 2 in his award-winning Dane Cooper series.
Dane Cooper beats against the tide to continue the search for his abducted daughter, Angela. His involvement with The Cabal, a mysterious group of grieving parents, intensifies as their efforts become bolder and more brazen.
From a high-profile assault upon sex traffickers in Savannah to a clandestine military operation in Somaliland, Dane brings the fight to those who would harm children. At every turn, members of The Cabal must stay out of the crosshairs of Carl Blanchard's new FBI task force and Virginia Bureau of Criminal Investigation Special Agents Patterson and Stills.
And this time, the Keeper and his disciples are fighting back.
The hunters have become the prey as Cabal members are viciously attacked in their homes. The savage killer is a ghost, torturing and murdering them one by one as he moves his way up the hierarchy. Dane, Sam, and Jack race against time to protect their members before the club is eradicated.
Nobody is safe.