In this book, we follow the story of Shannon Doyle, with whom Joe DeMarco had a short relationship in the previous book, House Privilege. Doyle’s book became a best-seller, and she moved to California, leaving DeMarco behind.
The story picks up with Doyle being murdered in a small Wyoming town, while researching her next book. DeMarco reads about this in the paper, and immediately sets out to find out more – he does not buy the local sheriff’s story that a passing trucker likely killed her, and he heads to Wyoming himself.
Once in Wyoming, Joe DeMarco finds himself an unwanted stranger as he pokes into the private business of Deputy Jim Turner, Hiram Bunt the local landowner (whose standoff with the government over grazing fees brought Doyle to the town), Bunt’s beautiful young wife Lisa – and the mysterious cafe owner, Harriet.
DeMarco calls Tommy Hewlett for backup, and faces off against the suspects, using himself as bait to draw them out. This is quite a transformation from DeMarco in the early books, who shunned his father’s violent reputation and was hardly in a fight.
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