Wild Jinx
Chapter One
It was dawn on Bayou Black, and its inhabitants were about to launch
their daily musical extravaganza, a performance as beautiful and
ancient as time.
The various sounds melded: a dozen different frogs, the splash of a
sac-à-lait or bream rising for a tasty insect, the whisper of a
humid breeze among the mossdraped oaks, the flap of an egret's wings
as it soared out from a bald cypress branch. Even the silence had a
sound. The only one not making any noise was its lone human
inhabitant, John LeDeux.
But not for long.
"Yoo-hoo!"
About five hundred birds took flight at that shrill greeting, not to
mention every snake, rabbit, raccoon, or gator within a one-mile
radius.
John jackknifed up in bed and quickly pulled the sheet up to the
waist of his naked body. He was in the single bedroom of ... read full excerpt from Wild Jinx ebook
