H Richardson Banke

When Kennedy Klark, a young lawyer from a prominent family, suffers a horrific personal tragedy, she flees the bright lights of Miami for a secluded cabin on a river in the woods of North Florida. As she tries to come to terms with the grief and loss, she finds she has landed in the quiet, little community of The Oasis, a place with characters as rich as the beautiful landscape around her.

Pender Associates is a shadowy organization that specializes in managing seemingly impossible situations for its clients. Sometimes, those services extend to managing - and creating - armed conflict.