Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find
themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman
is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run.
Before he was an Army Ranger who came home to become Tibbehah County
Sheriff and take down a corrupt system, Quinn Colson was a kid who got
into trouble--a lot of it. So when juvenile delinquent TJ Byrd insists
that she doesn't know who killed her mother--an unreliable addict who
has disappeared--Quinn's inclined to believe her. But no one else
does--not the town, not the sheriff in a neighboring county, not her
mother's older boyfriend, and certainly not Quinn's friend and former
deputy, U.S. Marshal Lillie Virgil.
The Byrd family has always been trouble, and sixteen-year-old TJ is
known for petty theft, fighting, and general hellraising. She's also no
fool, and when she senses she's about to take the fall for her mother's
murder, TJ, her boyfriend, her best friend, and her nine-year-old
brother go on the run. As Lillie Virgil tracks the kids across a trail
of burglaries, stolen cars and even a kidnapping, intent on bringing TJ
to justice, Quinn sets out to find the truth back in Tibbehah. Someone
has gone to a lot of violent trouble to make TJ and her friends the
logical target of the investigation. It's easy, and who cares about a
bunch of lawless kids?
As the bloody evidence against TJ piles up, Quinn knows someone truly
evil is at work here--and that puts TJ and her friends in more danger
than they can imagine.
