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 killingโand find themselves getting a little too close to the flamesโฆ
Shay Phillips knows her way around Dark Canyon. Sheโs handy with a gun and can track a wild animal with the best of them. Itโs humans who usually give her the most trouble. And with a hormonally charged teenage brother to raiseโand an admitted weakness for the wrong kind of manโtheyโre giving her plenty of trouble these days. Then thereโs 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 townโs newly arrived sheriff, Luke Mezaโa Las Vegas city boy with his own dark secretsโShay 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?
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