Against the Current
When dead fish clog the intake screen of Mara Ledoux's towboat, she knows the Mississippi is carrying more tha
When dead fish clog the intake screen of Mara Ledoux's towboat, she knows the Mississippi is carrying more than drought and silt. The veteran river pilot is supposed to deliver a routine salvage load south through shrinking channels, but a sealed crate on her deck points to a contaminated discharge the authorities insist never happened. With a former partner aboard as her environmental engineer, Mara begins tracing the crate's missing records through industrial docks, frightened river communities, and the tightening grip of the company that employs her. Every mile narrows the choices: a damaged cooling system, a pursuit boat in their wake, and a crew whose safety may depend on surrendering the proof. As the river closes around them, Mara must decide whether to protect her license and keep moving quietly, or ground the tow at a public dock and force the truth into the open. Against the Current is a tense adult adventure with romantic suspense, hard choices, and a river that never lets anyone escape the cost of what it carries.
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bitter, sweet, chemical enough to catch behind her tongue.
By sunrise the river had lost its color.
It ran beneath the Larkspur like poured tin, flat in the wide places and black where the current found a seam. Mara stood in the wheelhouse with one hand loose around the throttle, watching a sandbar rise out of the Arkansas bank where last spring there had been six feet of water and a fisherman who sold catfish from a blue cooler.
"Mara," Tessa said. "You need to come down."
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