Crooked Roads: Ginseng War #2 Sheriff Jack Stanley Series During the early 20th Century, harvesting and trade of ginseng slowed after the root was nearly dug to extinction. Undisturbed in the next 100 years in a certain hollow of Dixon County, the plant slowly covered the forest floor and kept pace with the kudzu growing above. As health foods and herbal markets expanded in the late 2oth Century, the worldwide price soared. One pound of ginseng suddenly was worth 25 times what it had brought at local dealers in the 1980s. One man schemed to harvest ton's of ginseng from one small hollow. However, aging twin sisters owned the land and they were determined that no one would harm the land or take its resources from the family. Ginseng becomes the root of all evil and Sheriff Jack Stanley must dig up clues to solve the mystery growing out of the Ginseng War.