French Horns

All she needed was some money, she thought, as she vainly tried to silence her breathing. Get out of Natchez and never return. Her ability to leave: about as unlikely as finding the means for a new life beneath the dirt she stood on.
But it was there. Exactly there. Much more than she could have ever imagined; to be held a hundred years tighter by the deep root fibers of the towering magnolia than her ephemeral grasp of its solid trunk.
Woven into Tim King's prominent heritage, the once prestigious Natchez lineage and massive plantation established during the slavocracy of the old South, loom many dark secrets and mysteries manifesting into the self-centered, greedy, racist alcoholic. Vast treasures, that Tim and some of his forefathers covet above all else, lies just out of reach for generations, waiting to be discovered through the connection of clues surrounding the local legend of the Frenchman's Chest.
Enjoy your escape to the old and new South with French Horns - the novel that took me 23 years to complete.