Paz Hernandez, beautiful and passionate, a physician's assistant and leader in the Latino community of southeastern Colorado, wants to know why two of her doctor friends from her missionary days in Central America were killed and why a third is now fleeing his country and begging her for help. But she never gets to ask him. Even as she prepares to hide him at her isolated canyon-country ranch, they are both gunned down in the ranch yard by an unknown assailant. The obvious suspect is Paz's husband, Matt Ewan, a local Anglo known for his drinking and violent, secretive past. But Ewan has the...