Barons of Babylon — Terrell L. Bowers

The rubber boom brought untold millions of dollars flowing into South America. People flooded from all over the world to cash in and get rich on the black gold. Yet, when greed is unleashed, humanity suffers â€" and often it is the lowest class of people who pay the ultimate price. Justina King ventures across the ocean to seek out the father who deserted her and her mother a decade before. She hoped to discover why he had not returned from South America and dreamed of a affable reconciliation. The dream, however, quickly becomes a nightmare, one filled with brutality, deceit, murder and all manner of inhuman savagery. Stranded in a foreign land, pursued by a powerful rubber baron, Justina realizes her mistake too late. Unfortunately, her only ally is a man who hates her very name!