Black Gold
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Last published Sat, May 18, 2013
Miner turned oilman Captain Lucas Black is a driven man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals--even trading his wife and baby daughter for the rights to farmland believed to have an oil deposit. Two decades later, the Captain is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town of Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing in Beaumont and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew are building a new railroad line through the Captain's property, and a young woman suddenly appears in town, believed to be the man's long-lost daughter.
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