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“A lively, engaging, and deeply knowledgeable romp through business and family intrigue in the Central Valley. Both Nichols and McEwen are talented, accomplished writers on their own, but in Stinger, they make a great and seamless team. —Liza Wieland, author of Paris, 7 A.M.--------“Highway 99 runs right through the San Joaquin Valley’s heart — which is where you’ll find Stinger. This is a letter of crazy stupid love to California’s most intriguing region, a literal land of milk and honey. It’s also a page-turning caper about the things that really matter: life, liberty, and the pursuit of water.”—Joe Mathews, author and Connecting California columnist-------------“Stinger is taut and colorful, a tale well-told by Nichols and McEwen, both of whom know every corner of the Valley and every secret hidden there. The landscape and the characters who inhabit it come alive in these pages.”—Steve Yarbrough, author of The Unmade World--------------Stinger takes readers on a caper full of entertaining twists and turns, failed intentions and human foibles. Navigating a rich landscape of crops and characters, Nichols and McEwen offer a tantalizing tale that reminds us of the possibilities of sweet revenge for the little guy who dares to dream. Meet Tex Rainwater, a truck driver, who runs a bottled water hustle. With the help of college students and social media, he fools a public thirsty for any magic elixir to buy his Rain Water as fast as he can swap labels. Meet Allie Boyd, a beekeeper with a promising career teaching at the university, searching for an answer to the dwindling bee population. Her head is full of dreams to create her own brand of honey, one that delivers more than a little sweetness. Meet Roland and Lisa Gold, owners of the Gold-N Corporation, a giant ag company gobbling up small farms and ranches in California’s vast Centr