"When Devon returned to Pine Hill, he decided he wanted to be the county's sheriff. He has absolutely no law enforcement background or training, and doesn't care. Sheriff is an elected position. In that job, he can re-emerge as the big shot he knows he is, but believes the Corps had wrongly overlooked." A vast rural area predisposes its relationship to the law. Corruption finds a safe haven when few eyes are fixated. A shady sheriff, embroiled with backwoods criminals and greedy women, reverts to acts of family betrayal. Mallory Fleetwood, an intellectually and developmentally disabled woman in her fifties, struggles against the torments of Sheriff Devon Highbrand as he attempts to steal her inheritance. When other strong women rally to protect Mallory, a brilliant attorney, Madeleine Stansbury, emerges with personal reasons to ensnare the diabolical sheriff in her own secretive and cunning plot of revenge. GOOD OL' BOY: BAD SHERIFF immerses the reader in some of the hidden dirty secrets of Appalachian characters and culture, and culminates in a singularly unique legal case with surprising twists This short fiction was inspired by certain true events
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