The Ramslishire family runs the business of Rockingham County, North Carolina, and they have for over two hundred years. One side of the family business is banking, finance, taxation, real estate, and insurance coverage. The other side is narcotics, human trafficking, loan sharking, and selling untaxed cigarettes.Most of the local elected politicians are in the pockets of the Ramslishire family, except one. Rockingham County Sheriff Donnie Vermont is not for sale. He won't bargain, accept, look the other way, or bend over for the Ramslishires. He maintains a tight fist concerning the integrity of his staff. That is, until he hires a handsome young deputy, the sort of man that the entire force looks to for leadership. Is Sheriff Vermont finally being sold out to the Ramslishire family?Follow along as almost two centuries of highly erotic and murderous history weave together in an otherwise slow-moving rural county in North Carolina.