To Finish a Feud: A Trace Newater Novel
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If you are a fan of the X-Files, then the Trace Newater FBI series is for you. Trace Newater adds humor and levity to the odd cases he receives... and in book number 1, it is time travel. The supernatural has met its match!
There’s something about a feud... real or imagined, that burrows deep into the bones of a story. It doesn’t end when the last shot is fired or the last body is buried. Feuds linger. They echo. They learn how to wait. What begins as blood and pride often becomes something stranger over time, twisting justice, memory, and truth into shapes that no longer obey the rules of history.
To Finish a Feud is not just the first installment in the Trace Newater series... it is a time-fractured, mystery-layered descent into a conflict that refuses to stay in the past. What starts as an old Kentucky blood feud soon reveals itself as something far more unsettling... a legacy that moves through generations, leaving behind unanswered questions, impossible coincidences, and traces of events that shouldn’t be able to touch one another at all.
Set against the violent origins of 1882 and propelled forward by a modern-day FBI agent with a talent for asking the wrong questions or perhaps the right ones at exactly the wrong moment... the story weaves history, suspense, and quiet techno-conspiracy with forces that defy easy explanation. From a single gunshot near a courthouse to unexplained anomalies buried in forgotten records, from vanished men to artifacts that seem out of place in their own time, the past begins to press back.
At the center of it all is Trace Newater, a man driven less by answers than by patterns. As he digs into a cold case that should have stayed buried, Trace uncovers more than grudges and missing persons. He encounters distortions of time, of causality, of legacy, that suggest some stories don’t simply survive history… they bleed through it. What has been dismissed as coincidence, superstition, or legend may instead be evidence of something unfinished.
So, whether you’re here for the slow burn of history, the momentum of a present-day investigation, or the unsettling sense that time itself may be an unreliable witness... welcome. The feud isn’t finished yet.
And some debts don’t care when they’re collected.