Central Kansas Library System

Spike the alligator and Mike the snowy egret help two quetzals whose forest home in Central America was destroyed.

In the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Tyler encounters vicious hunters whose actions threaten to destroy the Everglades ecosystem, and as a result joins the battle to protect that fragile environment.

"When Jesse Crane returned to his roots to serve on the Miccosukee police force, he'd hoped to leave behind the violence of the city and the memories of his murdered wife. But bodies start to pile up in Jesse's corner of the sultry Florida swampland ... When Jesse Crane returned to his roots to serve on the Miccosukee police force, he'd hoped to leave behind the violence of the city and the memories of his murdered wife. But bodies start to pile up...

Kim was still a teenager when she fled the Florids Everglades--and most people in herhometown of Cypress were glad to see her go. For Kim committed the cardinal small-town sin. She accused a local son of an unspeakable murder--and no one would ever let her forget it. A decade later, Kim returns to Cypress to take over her late grandmother's bar. she hopes enough time has passed for her to go back to the only place she's ever called home. but the hatred...