When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she
would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. With grit,
courage, and dogged determination, she challenged the status quo--and
won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must
battle the prejudice and hostility of a mistrustful, male-dominated
police force and solve a grisly double homicide that threatens to tear
the sleepy desert community to pieces. For the two bodies baking in the
harsh Southwestern sun are connected by sinister threads that reach back
generations--and by devastating family secrets of greed, hatred, and
shocking abuse that could destroy the innocent along with the guilty.