Coal Savage had seen things as a Marine, and as a military policeman at the Long Binh Jail in Vietnam, that he would never want another person to go through. Yet somehow coming home to a cold, angry wife was worse. And then Laura was gone. And he had no one but himself to blame. Now with a heart full of pain, a daughter who holds him responsible for her mother's death, and three sons he is not sure he can raise alone, he commits the crime that sends him back to his childhood home of Salmon, Idaho, to a recently vacated job as county sheriff, and his last chance to make things right, with his...

With friends and citizens dropping around him almost faster than he can breathe, new Sheriff Coal Savage has no time to rest. When Savage begins questioning everything he had come to believe about the spree of assassinations in Lemhi County, Idaho, and the very people whose loyalty he thought he had no reason to doubt, he finds a lot more on the line than justice alone. It's a race to the death to preserve his family, his friends, and his own sanity. At the finish line waits an explosive, bloody conclusion no one could possibly foresee-an ending that will shake the faith of the little...