When D.E.A. Agent David Logan returns home he expects to find the poverty-stricken fishing village he left fifteen years before. Instead, he finds a picture postcard community with everyone experiencing untold prosperity. Millions of dollars are flowing into the town, but from where? And who is behind it? The money appears to be from illegal drugs. Everything points to Logan's teenage love as a ring leader. The problem is, he is still in love with her.
Brandywine Bay, 52,000 words, by Dan Weatherington is a romantic suspense novel revolving around David Logan and Karen Fredricks. Logan is orphaned at age fourteen, yet his parents instil in him a decency few ever know. He exemplifies this decency when he leaves Karen, a girl he loves and adores, at graduation. She is beautiful, intelligent, the daughter of the richest man in town and has a bright future. He has nothing. He knows if they remain together Karen’s father will turn on her and she will end as just another nobody in Whiskey Creek, North Carolina.
Fifteen years later thirty-three-year-old Logan is a major in the DEA. We again see Logan’s resolve and ability in a raid on a large drug lab in the Columbian jungle. As he reports on the raid they hand him a letter from Jackie Raintree, his childhood best friend. The letter is a call for help, but doesn’t indicate help from what. Logan phones Jackie and discovers the name of the town has changed from Whiskey Creek to Brandywine Bay. Also, Jackie is elusive, afraid to talk.
Excerpt
“Would I stop it, David? Would I stop it? I was the second graduate of Whiskey Creek High School to go to college. I was the first to ever get a graduate degree. In the last five years over twenty have gone to college. Two are already in law school. Three more are on track to get there. There’s one who just started medical school and I hope one day will join me in my practice. There’s no crime here. There’s no hunger. Nobody freezes in the winter. There’s no one begging. Is that what you want me to stop?” She slowed her voice almost to a whisper enunciating every word, “is that what you want me to stop? Fine, I’ll stop it. If you think those things are so bad, I’ll stop it. If I knew where the money was coming from I would stop it. But exactly what in the hell do I stop?”
