Can a thirty-one-year-old single mom, the first female deputy ever hired in her county, succeed in her unexpected appointment as county sheriff? It's a question Cass Rosier must answer not just for her fellow deputies and the citizens of Nicholas County--but also for herself. At issue: someone is killing attractive young women, and leaving them for her to find. Strangely, each is found wearing a beautiful, scarlet evening gown and look as if they have just stepped out of an expensive beauty salon. But the illusion of their beauty hides the awful truth about their tragic deaths. Who are they,...

This John Grisham meets Tony Hillerman-style legal thriller, set in and around the vast Navajo reservation in the American Southwest, is fiction that became fact even as the author was writing it. Danny Whitehorse, a struggling attorney from Farmington, NM suddenly finds his tiny law office inundated with hundreds of clients from the reservation, none of whom can pay his fees. They all have the same complaint. Gannon Oil Company, the area's largest employer, has suddenly stopped paying monthly royalties on natural gas wells drilled on their tribal allotment lands. Gannon claims the wells have...

All Matthew Yazee wants when he walks into the Whitehorse, Stevens, and Whitehorse law offices in Farmington, NM is for his employer, EnviroGuard Recovery Services, to cover his medical bills. That's only fair, he thinks, since it was the stuff in their barrels that made him sick in the first place. Unknown to Matthew, he has stumbled across the most dangerous eco-terrorism conspiracy the world has ever faced, run by terrorists who will stop at nothing to see their diabolical scheme succeed. As Chaco Whitehorse begins the Yazee investigation, from out of nowhere, he receives the most...