After leaving the Australian Outback to get an education, Emily
Tempest--half-aboriginal, half-white--returns to her birthplace as an
Aboriginal County Police officer. Emily's first assignment is a murder
at the Green Swamp Well Roadhouse, a case that seems open-and-shut to
her partner, by-the-book Sergeant Cockburn. But the suspect is an old
friend of Emily's father, a prospector with a passion for philosophy.
Could he really have committed this heinous crime? As Emily reconnects
with her past, she must accept her new role, and learn to live between
two worlds.