Firestorm

by B. Teleferio Hall, Eleanor Liggens (Editor)

When Vicki Marshall decides to take a well-earned vacation, she leaves her son Carl in charge of her luxury resort nestled in the Montana mountains. Instead of sticking to the plan of running the resort for three years with three million dollars, Carl burns through the money—then forges his mother’s signature, drains her bank accounts, and ensnares both of them in an FBI forgery sting operation.

Nearly penniless, Vicki turns to the one person willing to help her—an unemployed young man named Ken Newman visiting the resort on his way back East. With no job prospects in sight, he agrees to stay and assist Vicki as she attempts to bring the resort back from the brink of ruin.

Unfortunately, Vicki and Ken hired whoever walked in off the streets, and more than one employee had a problem with the fact that Ken was black.

Despite it all, Ken perseveres, doing everything he could to save the hotel—even as everyone around him battles against him and threatened his life because of his race.

Completely true and wonderfully absorbing, Firestorm proves that truth is almost always stranger than fiction.

635 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 17, 2008