<p> Jay Porter has long since made peace with not living the American Dream. He runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy Houston strip mall&#151;where his most promising client is a low-rent call girl&#151;and he's determined to leave the sins of his past buried: the guns, the FBI file, the trial that nearly destroyed him. That is, until the night he saves a woman from drowning and inadvertently opens a Pandora's box. Her secrets reach into the upper echelons of Houston's corporate power brokers and ensnare Jay in a murder investigation that could cost him his practice, his family . . . even his life. </p> <p> <i>Black Water Rising</i> is a brilliant debut thriller that marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent. </p>