Hill Country Covenant (The Covenant Series Book 2) (Ebook)

Some fences keep cattle in. Some keep everything else out. They look the same from the road.

Missionary nurse Claire Marchand knows how to walk into a community that looks peaceful from a distance and find what’s hidden underneath. Six months ago, she helped dismantle a trafficking network buried in the Louisiana bayou. Now Faith Reach has sent her to Solin, Texas — a Hill Country town of fourteen hundred, a sheriff in his nineteenth year, and a lavender farm called Harvest Fellowship that everyone in the county considers a good neighbor.

Three women have left the community in the past sixteen months. No one can find them.

When a young community mother whispers a name at the clinic door and turns away — do you know a woman named Liesel Brandt? — Claire recognizes the pattern she documented in the bayou. She knows what she’s looking at. She just needs the evidence to prove it.

DEA agent Wade Broussard has no jurisdiction in Texas, no agency resources, and no good reason to drive eight hours to Hill Country on personal leave. He drives anyway. Alongside investigative journalist Rosa Vega, who has been working this story for eight months and has a folder full of names she cannot locate, the three of them begin to build a case around a community elder who genuinely believes what he’s doing — and a placement operator named Dutch Haverford whose network reaches across three states.

In the loft of the east barn, a woman named Liesel Brandt has been keeping a log for seven years. Thirteen names. Photographs. Evidence. She has been waiting for someone who could read the signal she’s been leaving, and now someone has come.

Hill Country Covenant is a novel about the faith that survives in the darkest rooms and the courage it takes to walk out through the open gate. It is also the story of two self-sufficient people — a missionary nurse and a man who has spent ten years operating undercover — learning to stop managing the distance between them and build something real.