Bantam
September 2009
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Featuring: Shay Philips; Luke Meza
432 pages ISBN: 0553592025 EAN: 9780553592023 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
In a southern California town ablaze with sordid secrets,
a free-spirited biologist and a straitlaced sheriff join
forces to investigate a suspicious killing—and find
themselves getting a little too close to the flames…
Shay Phillips knows her way around Dark
Canyon. She’s handy with a gun and can track a wild animal
with the best of them. It’s humans who usually give her the
most trouble. And with a hormonally charged teenage brother
to raise—and an admitted weakness for the wrong kind of
man—they’re giving her plenty of trouble these days. Then
there’s the matter of murder. As an expert on mountain
lions, Shay is skeptical when a local prostitute turns up
mauled without a drop of blood near the body.
Now,
together with the town’s newly arrived sheriff, Luke Meza—a
Las Vegas city boy with his own dark secrets—Shay must
navigate a dangerous valley filled with angry ex-lovers,
unfaithful spouses, and poisonous snakes in a desperate
search for the killer. But when suspicion falls on her own
brother, and her attraction to Luke rages into a full-on
erotic affair, can Shay quell the fires inside her long
enough to uncover the truth?