Blood Beneath Texas: Blood Beneath Texas: A Gripping Historical Western Saga of Oil, Family, Corruption, and Buried Truth (The McAllisters - A Texas Oil Saga Book 2)

The McAllisters survived the frontier. Now they must survive the empire rising beneath it.



October 1902. After the hard-won victory at New Haven, the McAllister family believes the worst of their fight is behind them. But when a warning letter arrives from Beaumont, Texas, Clara McAllister learns that her family name may have been used in rooms where mercy never entered.



A dead clerk.

A stolen widow’s mark.

A photographer murdered before the truth can reach daylight.

And a room at the Fairmont House that refuses to stay buried.



As Clara, Jameson, Elias, and Sofia travel south, they are drawn into the mystery of Catherine Bell, a young woman who died after uncovering a web of forged land records, altered newspaper accounts, hidden hotel ledgers, and ruthless oil interests willing to destroy anyone who gets too close.



With the help of Lydia Bell, Catherine’s sharp-tongued and grieving sister, the McAllisters follow a dangerous trail through Beaumont’s hotels, rail lines, laundry rooms, newspaper offices, convent records, and river warehouses. Every page they recover reveals another piece of a conspiracy built on greed, silence, and blood.



But the truth has been divided for a reason.



One whole truth in one place is too easily stolen.



As the evidence grows, so does the danger. The McAllisters must decide whether protecting their family name matters more than exposing the men who have used it. And Clara must discover whether courage means carrying a pistol, carrying proof, or standing beside a woman whose grief may be the only thing powerful enough to bring Beaumont’s lies into the light.



Blood Beneath Texas is Book Two in A Texas Oil Saga, a sweeping historical western family saga filled with mystery, betrayal, oil-field ambition, frontier justice, and the cost of telling the truth in a town built to bury it.