Diane Morris, 33, a divorced single parent, balances work and home responsibilities as she drives Louisiana's rural highways to negotiate oil-drilling rights with a feisty widow, a black farmer and a self-important autocrat—neighboring landowners whose conflicting claims embroil Diane in intrigue and intimidation, mystery and arson.

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