Blood in the Everglades

Some secrets are meant to be swallowed whole.
In the spring of 2005, deep in the humid stillness of the Florida Everglades, a brother and sister commit a chilling act—they murder their parents and feed their bodies to the alligators, believing the swamp will consume every trace of their crime.
But someone saw everything.
A 15-year-old Miccosukee girl, hidden in the shadows, becomes the sole witness to the horror. Silenced by fear, she carries the truth for twenty years.
Now, in 2025, our favorite retired detective Sid Daniels—drawn to cold cases like a moth to flame—tracks her down. What begins as a quiet confession becomes a courtroom reckoning. She has the evidence. She has the truth. And she’s finally ready to speak.
Meanwhile, Mason Crispin, who was just 16 when he learned he was adopted, hires Sid to uncover the mystery of his birth parents. As the investigation unfolds, Mason and the long-silent witness find themselves bound by a past neither of them expected—and a future shaped by justice, love, and long-buried secrets.
A gripping Southern noir of betrayal, redemption, and the dark hunger of the wild.