Poacher’s Moon

A game warden. A dead bear. A mountain county that owes one man everything.

When game warden Wade Holloway finds a black bear gutted below Tanner Gap, it looks like one more poacher working the Blue Ridge. Then a nineteen-year-old who saw too much turns up dead at the bottom of Laurel Fork gorge, and the boy’s shoes are clean.

In Hollis County, Dalton Rourke owns the timber, the lodge, and a good share of the pews on Sunday morning. And something is leaving his log yard at three in the morning in coolers that hold a lot more than bear meat.

To stand fast, Wade will have to decide what kind of man he really is.