Where the Bluebonnets Remember: A Texas Covenant Mystery
When Texas Ranger David Brooks receives a letter from a dead man, he doesn't expect it to unravel a hundred and fifty years of silence.
Nathan Rhodes mailed his letter three days before his heart finally gave out and left his granddaughter, county archivist Abigail Rhodes, with no explanation at all. All David has to go on is a stranger's plea to look into "things the county would rather forget." What he finds is a torn page missing from the Rhodes family Bible, a covenant sworn beneath a live oak in the drought of 1875, and a debt this county has been quietly failing to pay for five generations.
As David and Abigail follow the thread through a break-in at the county archive, a forged land deed, and the fierce, guarded kindness of the old ranching families who've called this Hill Country home their whole lives; they uncover a story far larger than one missing Bible page: the story of a man named Ezekiel Coleman, who saved this entire county from ruin, and whose family paid the price for it in silence ever since.
Where the Bluebonnets Remember is a slow-burn mystery about the cost of truth and the harder cost of silence; about a county that must finally choose whether to remember rightly, and about two people who discover, in the process of uncovering someone else's buried history, exactly what they're willing to build together.
Book One of The Texas Covenant Mysteries, a series about the truths small Texas towns bury; and what it takes, generation after generation, to finally dig them back up.
For readers of Lisa Wingate, Charles Martin, and Jan Karon - Christian fiction with a literary heart and a mystery worth staying up for.
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