Publisher's Synopsis
After fifteen years in Mississippi's Parchman Penitentiary Ray Bennett thought the worst was behind him. Back home, in Winstead County, love and hate for Ray, in equal portions, smolder in a dangerous mix that will ignite a fire that leaves no one in Ray's circle unscathed. Carl Sullivan is a powerful man driven by vengeance who will stop at nothing to take all Ray has or ever hopes to have. There is fifteen year old Emmy who doesn't know that Ray is her father, but has her own reasons for hating him. There is Laura, Emmy's mother. And there is Lori, Laura's sister, whose unrequited love for Ray has cost her more than she can reveal. Assembling an unlikely crew of outcasts, each searching for an elusive peace, Ray sets about making a life for them all. He has inherited his grandfather's crop harvesting business ... or what's left of it. They will fight the elements, worn out equipment, sabotage, and their own separate pasts, to bring Bennett Harvesters, and thus themselves, into being. This is the story of lives affected when one man's greed collides with another man's search for truth, redemption, and peace, these troubled fields. Old loves, complicated new relationships, manipulation, craven treachery, and a battle between revenge and perseverance fuel the flames that bring it all to a shocking climax. "Be inspired by Ray's simple faith before unrelenting opposition. Enjoy the easy banter of the rural American South and the often comedic, sometimes heart-rending efforts of shattered lives and dreams trying to put all the pieces back together and make a way. You'll laugh some. You'll cry some. You might not put the book down until "The End", and you'll wish there were more. You will miss these people. Who knows? Among these Troubled Fields you might just find a piece, and a peace, you didn't know was missing."
