Retribution

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Northern Thailand, 1960s

During a violent storm in the remote mountain village of Akha, an aging farmer named Nakul opens his door to a wandering, starving stranger. What begins as mercy soon becomes his undoing. Within weeks, his act of kindness reveals a trail of deceit, murder, and a loss that will claim every person he holds dear.

When Nakul Pattanapong’s son returns home from France, the stranger’s buried crime in their barn exposes ties to the opium trade and ends in blood. Months later, his fiancée Natnicha arrives only to find both men dead and the stranger blamed. But when she learns a drowned fugitive was her long lost twin brother, her grief hardens into resolve.

Re-assuming her Thai name once again, Natnicha hunts the last surviving Somchai brother, the man behind every death. She wins his trust, his love, and finally his marriage proposal then takes him to the river that ended her family and gives him her answer while on bended knee in silence and blood.

Retribution by Kevin Woodard is a tale of vengeance and fate set in the humid hills of 1960s Thailand, where compassion breeds ruin and justice never dies quietly.