The air is filled with the pungent odor of sulfur, gnarled oaks
struggle to survive, and something like mist spews from the
ground. MORGAN COLEBRIDGE stoops, picks up a handful
of soil, and knows this site is the answer to his prayers. 
Shaking the dirt from his fingers, he smells the greasy residue. 
There’s black gold here—no doubt!  And he is going to own it
—all he has to do is make a pact with PRICE THORNTON,
whom many demonize as Lucifer’s own, and then—marry
RACHAEL PRIEST, the old man’s granddaughter.

Set in the rich, oil-producing region of Southeast Texas
beginning in 1870, Devil's Pocket follows the saga of three
families that twine and intertwine so fully that murder had to
result. With a background that produced the non-fiction work
Black Gold to Bluegrass: From the Oil Fields of Texas to
Spindletop Farm of Kentucky, Fred B. McKinley hits a
home run with this, his first novel and provocative
historical thriller.