"Joanna Brady - devoted mother and the first female Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona - knows what it's like to lose one you love, and her heart still aches over the murder of her policeman husband. But her symphanty for a tragically widowed ex-cop has placed Joanna's future in jeopardy - and brought her face-to-face with death in the high, lonely desert. On the nineteenth wedding anniversay, Hal Morgan's wife was fatally struck down by a drunk driver - and the courts punished her killer with only a wrist-slap. A year to the day later the irresponsible motorist is murdered and all fingers are pointing to Morgan as the perpetrator - except Shariff Brady's. But Joanna's gut insinct is leading her into a maelstrom of danger and deception, as she trails the truth from a ghostly mining camp to the rocky spires of the Chiricahua National Monument. Because now an assassin is turning his sights on her." - back cover.