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Given the trainwreck my life has become, I've earned my cynical attitude. I'm trapped in a dead-end job at the Bear Butte County Sheriff's Office-a position I took out of desperation after the brutal murder of my Lakota half-brother. Three years have passed, his case is cold, and my coping mechanisms-tequila, cigarettes and dubious men-no longer serve as excuses for my grief; they define who I am.Welcome to my world-Julie Collins, harbinger of doom and a sucker for lost causes.So when the body of a sixteen-year-old white girl surfaces and the death details are alarmingly similar to my brother's murder, Kevin Wells-my best pal and local PI-admits he'd been hired to find the missing kid before she turned up dead.I'm roped into helping Kevin tie up loose ends regarding the girl's disappearance…and that's when things begin to unravel. Lies are revealed. Bullets start flying. Yet nothing-not even death threats-will stop me from digging for the truth and finding the justice for this girl that my brother was denied.But the killer is willing to kill again to make sure these secrets stay buried. And this time, I'm in the crosshairs.

A kid in trouble is my weakness. That's why Tony Martinez, president of the Hombres motorcycle club, hires me to track down a five-year-old Native American girl who's become a pawn in her parents' custody dispute.Simple, right? Find kid, collect fat fee, and celebrate my superior PI skills with the dangerously sexy MC overlord. Except…Martinez neglected to mention a few crucial details. Like the girl's father is the foreman on the controversial new Indian casino under construction, and the girl's mother works at a rival Deadwood gaming hall run by an East Coast crime family.After bullets start whizzing at me, I'm in Martinez's face, demanding answers. Turns out plenty of people are determined to stop the casino from opening, including competitors, local ranchers, and a Lakota holy group.As the violence escalates and the bodies pile up, everything around me begins to tumble like a house of cards. My search for a missing girl puts me on the wrong side of tribal politics and at odds with everyone-Kevin, Martinez, and even my father.In a fight for my life after I attract the killer's attention, I realize no place is safe…not even hallowed ground.

It's horrifying to watch someone die.My partner and I witnessed a fatality during a routine surveillance case-a case that took a bizarre turn when we questioned the victim's wife about the mysterious hole that had caused the accident. The widow admitted that hunters had discovered human remains and rather than alerting the authorities, she and her late husband just…reburied the bones. The out-of-sight -out-of-mind approach is never a smart option, particularly when it's oh…illegal, and especially now that the bones in the hole have vanished.Who was buried there? And how long ago?Local, state and tribal authorities want answers. My overworked former boss at the Bear Butte County Sheriff's office hires our PI agency to separate facts from speculation. I bury myself in the investigation because it leaves me little time to obsess about the screwed-up situation in my personal life-why Martinez asked me to go undercover in his strip club as a bartender…and why in the hell I agreed.I never imagined this new case would cause total chaos in my world, creating new enemies, opening old wounds with my father, reviving disputes with my half-brother's Lakota family, and generating dangerous employee rivalries.But the information I uncover leads me back to my brother's unsolved murder…and I finally come face to face with his killer.