New Contemporary Suspense Novel set in Ozarks Wilderness

"Where Eagles Soar," by Phyllis Modeland,a fast-paced novel set in the Buffalo National Wilderness and Ozarks National Forest of Arkansas, has been released this week by Crossroads Publishing Company, Apple Valley, Minnesota. The novel is available as an electronic book (e-book) on line, or on CD or floppy disc. "Where Eagles Soar" is a contemporary suspense novel. It takes place deep in Ozarks wilderness areas where no people live and law enforcement is difficult. The rugged, remote area affords seclusion for marijuana growers and abandoned buildings that hide an illicit drug lab. Few venture into this place where motorized vehicles are prohibited. But ornithologist Jo Talley and consulting engineer and Eagle Watch volunteer, Tanner Winslow, go there in a desperate attempt to save a bald eagle they see shot. Theybecome entangled in a deadly struggle against weather, trackless forest and those who would stop at nothing to protect their drug trade, describes the author. This is Modeland's fourth book. Others
include the non-fiction "A Living History of the Ozarks," published by Pelican, and two young adult novels; "On the Scent of Danger," published by Thomas Bourgey and Thorndike, and "Moxie," published by MacMillan in the United States and in Germany by Franz Schneider. Modeland, who lives in remote Marion County, Arkansas, also is editor and publisher of a weekly international newsletter for electronic book readers, The RunningRiver Reader                  -0-