The Cast Net:

When Mills Taylor, a talented New York advertising and public relations agent, accepts a job as the director of an educational scholarship foundation in Alston Station, a town near Charleston, South Carolina, she never imagines that her new position will launch a year of living dangerously. Mills agrees to help after the foundation's former director, Cooper Heath, suffers a personal tragedy. His wife is missing and some people think he made her disappear.The Cast Net chronicles the year when Mills plunges into a socially unfamiliar world of Southern money and power in the late 1980s. As she helps Cooper cope and seek the truth behind his wife's disappearance, she learns the deeper meaning of "the cast net" and why it's been embraced by generations of Low Country residents. The Cast Net is a compelling and engaging novel about roots, a sense of community, trust, betrayal, redemption, and especially—love.About the AuthorA graduate of the University of South Carolina, Millie West has a background in aviation. She was one of the first female pilots hired by United Parcel Service when they formed their flight department in the late 1980s. Millie has owned and been the broker of her own real estate company. An award winning screenwriter, Millie has spent countless hours exploring the rich historical vestiges of her home state. Her love of the fascinating, complex, and compelling history of the South is expressed in her writing. Millie resides with her family near Columbia, South Carolina. To learn more about Millie West and the Southern Redemption Trilogy, visit www.milliewestauthor.com.