While visiting a friend's Western dude ranch, Benni Harper stumbles upon the remains of a long-dead murder victim buried in a shallow grave and embarks on an investigation to reveal the truth behind the terrible crime.

"The electrifying new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times-bestselling author. Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances. And especially the persistent rumors that the man's wealth comes from killing people. Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly...

While visiting his inherited property outside Las Vegas, New Mexico, Kevin Kerney comes across the bones of a murder victim near Hermit's Peak. He turns the case over to the police and heads back to Sante Fe to work on his relationship with Sara Brannon. But soon, he is called back to Hermit's Peak. Another body has been found. And Kevin is about to unearth some shattering discoveries.

In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Heroic LAPD officer Jac McGarvey is badly wounded and will not walk for months. His wife and child are left to fend for themselves against both criminals that control an increasingly violent city and the dead director's cult of fanatic fans. In a lonely corner of Montana, Eduardo Fernandez, the father of McGarvey's murdered partner, witnesses a strange...

Kennedy Blaine arrives in Valentine, Nebraska, to check out the ranch her father left her and is immediately drawn to the ranch manager, Derek Sterling, but when Kennedy begins receiving threatening notes, she realizes someone wants her out of Nebraska at any cost.

Former army sniper Mercy Gunderson returns to her struggling South Dakota ranch and investigates the suspicious death of a Native American child, a killing that is met with indifference by local authorities.