The series involves a new female sheriff, with a prior military background, that stumbles across crime, corruption, and murder in a small county that are sure to lead the entire state into a drug war between families loyal to the gold mine of the pecan industry and the drug laden world of the Mexican Cartel, who will stop at nothing to extract revenge on a rich and powerful family who seems to be beyond the grasp of Texas law. Book One introduces you to Samantha Milliqen, a single mother who struggled to find employment after being forced to leave the Army due to a nasty divorce and custody battle that left her penniless. Her only alternative to survive is to run for sheriff, do everything she can to uphold the law and maintain her office for two terms to help pay off all of her bills.
First prepared as a script for a 'chance' network or web series, the developed screenplay was churned out in a detailed set of chapters that will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you wish you were out in San Saba to help the sheriff lay down the law. The sheriff has to deal with drug runners, killers, illegal immigrants, and a covert group of land owners who constantly kill horses on private lands. This is Quintana's first attempt at writing a novel and he is sure to write many more as the series will run for at least five novels during the first printing. Many of his followers on Facebook were given a first glimpse at the novel during it's rough stage to help critique and review the intended version before final editing.
However, the failure of NBC to secure the rights to the series left Quintana with a big decision to make; either produce the series on video himself or transfer the scripts into a novel for publishing, something that was suggested to him by a life long friend.
"I didn't want this series to be thrown into another novel that had some hot woman in the lead, that would prove to handle every situation perfectly and without any real damage to her psyche" explains Quintana. "I wanted the series and/or the novel to have a non-fictional feel to it, having the leading character make mistakes and also have to deal with the 'good ol' boy' networks which actually do thrive throughout the state of Texas."
Quintana explained that the idea for the series first came to life after several trips that he made driving through the heart of Texas, to see his mother who was failing in health. He had drove through San Saba so many times but had never stopped there before; as he never saw anything worth stopping for until one day when he got thirsty and made a stop at a small town gas station there. After his stop, he drove back to Montgomery, Texas and wrote the first book to the series in seven days; claiming that the ideas for the series script just kept pouring out of his fingers each time he touched his keyboard."It was hilarious" recalls Quintana. "The people in San Saba were nice, the weather was perfect, and I felt that the small town atmosphere would be perfect for producing a horror film I had in mind. But after spending more than three hours there, I saw the potential for a fictional story concerning a change in local politics when the long running sheriff is forced to retire due to health reasons and voting for a new sheriff has begun. The people in town openly shared some town drama with me concerning drug deals, illegal immigrants, and some crafty thefts within the town that put to question the sheriff's possible involvement. It was just hearsay, but I loved the fact that I could add to it and stir the pot."
Book One is said to be complete awaiting a winter release date for printing, and in the meantime, Quintana is currently working overtime on Book Two. But he admits that putting the idea of the series to video is still a possible endeavor he could pursue at a later time.
Jazz L.
[Contributing Writer]
