John S. Tarlton

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...

The witty first-person narrative of a baby boomer's mid-life crisis, set in Baton Rouge.