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A powerful tale of murder in a world of harsh beauty and deadly violencerepackaged in the New York Times bestselling Jance look. Two bodies lie baking in the blistering Southwestern sun, victims in a grisly double homicide that could tear a sleepy Arizona desert community to pieces. It is a grim welcome for a newly elected female sheriff still tormented by the murder of her policeman husband. But Joanna Brady knows her duty is clear. She must hunt down the brutal slayer of two whose lives were connected by strange and sinister threadsbefore a volatile situation explodes in a fireball of greed, hatred, and horrific family secrets that could destroy the innocent along with the guilty.