Nick Russell

When Somerton County "bad girl" Leona Darling goes missing, Deputy John Lee Quarrels is ordered to find her. As he begins asking questions, John Lee discovers that Leona was a badge bunny, a cop groupie who was well-known on a less than professional basis by many of his fellow lawmen....

When the father he never knew shows up at his house in the middle of the night, beaten and his body mutilated, with only a vague explanation of what happened to him, Somerton County Deputy John Lee Quarrels suspects there's more to the story than he is being told....

Life is already complicated enough for John Lee Quarrels, what with his estranged wife dropping in for sleepovers, her oversexed sister tempting him, his Elvis obsessed grandmother, and being caught smack dab in the middle of a power struggle between the Sheriff and Chief Deputy....

Come along for the ride as Somerton County Deputy Sheriff John Lee Quarrels tries to keep the peace in his rural Florida county as he deals with daily trials and tribulations that include a collection of characters that show the best and the worst of the Old and New South....