The Call of the Wild: There was secret hidden in the Tabuga River, one that Miranda Conner was never meant to find. But now that she had, she was having a hard time staying alive. The preservation of the pristine Appalachian waterway depended on Miranda's survival. And Miranda depended on one man. Tom Wilkes was as rugged as the mountains, moved silently as a shadow and had his own secrets. Not even Tom's vigilance could protect her in a vast wilderness where dead men disappeared, lawmen didn't protect the innocent and old grudges coudl kill. For Miranda had ventured into a place not located on any map: the other side of civilazation