Cracker Justice

Cracker Justice

When Texas cowboy, Jesse Pruitt, purchases land in Florida he quickly discovers ranching in Florida is uniquely different from ranching in Texas. When Jesse?s life intersects with Harriet Painter, a survivor of abuse at the hands of her uncle Buford, Malachai McQueen, the son of an El Paso working woman and others with names like Moccasin Bob and Pelo Berryhill, what results is a case of murder, stolen identity, a runaway girl in peril and a love story.Cracker Justice explores the true history of the Sara Sota Vigilance Committee, a group of prominent ranchers and business men who resorted to violent tactics to evict squatters and farmers from the open range. It is a novel of Florida?s outlaw history that blends historical fact with engaging fictional characters who revolve around the classic cowboy hero - Jesse Pruitt. Cracker Justice combines all the essential parts of a classic Cracker Western.About the AuthorThe Daughter of a Colonel, Janet Post, a self-described wild child, lived the military life until she got out of high school at which time she married and moved to Canada where she lived up in the Sechelt Inlet,. This set the scene for her YA novel, Spellcast Waters. Janet lived in a log cabin 15 miles by boat from the nearest town. She?s lived in 40 different locations, including Hawaii where he worked as a polo groom for fifteen years. Upon moving to Florida she worked as a reporter covering children in middle school and teenagers in high school which further ignited her interest in writing YA novels. She loves kids and horses. She now lives in Hastings, the swampland of Florida with too many dogs and her fifteen year-old granddaughter. Together with her son Gabe she wrote the YA novels Voodoo Science and My BFF is an Alien. Her book Vagrant was named a finalist in the International Book Awards contest and was a Green Apple Special Selection winner.