IT'S LATE NOVEMBER ALONG THE SHORES OF NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. Deer season has been open for a few days and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. A local TV anchorwoman is returning home from an early morning yoga class with her young twin daughters. She stops at the end of her drive and climbs out of her car to collect the mail from the box. As she turns back toward her vehicle, the bullet from a high caliber weapon tears through her chest.

In the third book in this series, Sheriff Ray Elkins confronts both the dark history of his own department and powerful and wealthy adversaries who try to control the direction and reach of his investigation.