In the shadow of a massive boulder on OklahomaтАЩs Big Rock Prairie, a squirrel hunter discovers a charred skeleton in a homemade charcoal kiln. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond and Chickasaw Lighthorse police sergeant Bill Maytubby are called to the scene and soon identify the victim as a young Chickasaw man from a nearby town.
What begins as the search for a killer soon throws Maytubby and Bond into the deep end of a conspiracy that puts both the victimтАЩs family and the officers themselves at risk. While Maytubby and Bond lead a manhunt through moonlit back roads and blackjack thickets, they must quickly decipher the murdererтАЩs next move ... before itтАЩs too late.
Kris Lackey is the author of three previous Chickasaw Nation mysteries, the USA Today bestseller NailтАЩs Crossing and its sequels Greasy Bend and Butcher Pen Road. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.