For Caleb: A Low Country Story

by Geoff Partlow

Disabled Navy Seal warrior, Trey Dawson, has a world-class chip on his shoulder. His marriage is over and his three-year-old son, Caleb, died tragically at home when a rotten piece of Chinese steel broke and pierced his heart. Without family; he heads back to where he was raised in the Low Country of South Carolina. The Gullah people of the Sea Islands who are neighbors to his rented house are direct descendants of slaves freed in 1861. In isolation, they developed their own language, cooking style, and still practice ancient West African traditions. The community becomes the family Trey never had. He and Cerberus, his blue-tick hound, find a modern industrial plant in the middle of the piney woods. With the help of a Gullah attorney and root doctor, the beautiful Penn Smith, they learn that the plant is operated by Chinese Army regulars whose commandant keeps poisonous snakes around as pets. Shunning government involvement, thoroughly in love, Penn and Trey launch a mission that could save the planet from mutual nuclear extinction.t

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2019