From the Publisher - In the desert, a Native American woman is dead an ex-con once jailed for the murder of her husband and her teenage daughter has vanished into the long shadows of the night-still canyons. A dedicated law officer, Sheriff Joanna Brady of Cochise County has suffered stoically through loss and pain yet she has never wavered in her commitment to duty and the pursuit of justice. Now, as she stands on the brink of a new life and new happiness, death is summoning her once more, calling her down a twisted trail of hatred, greed, and devastating consequence to the black heart of the Dragoon Mountains.There is no respite yet for Joanna Brady only a terrifying excursion into a world of passion and violence, where long-buried secrets are the best reasons of all to kill . . . or to die."