Life is good for Joanna Brady in the small desert community of Bisbee, Arizona. She has Jenny, her adored nine-year-old daughter, and her solid, honest, and loving husband, Andy, a local lawman whos running for Sheriff of Cochise County. But her good life explodes when a bullet destroys Andy Bradys future and leaves him dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun. The police brass claim that Andy was dirtyup to his neck in drugs and smugglingand that the shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna knows a cover-up when she hears one...and murder when she sees it. But her determined efforts to track down an assassin and clear her husbands name are placing herself and Jenny in serious jeopardy. Because, in the desert, the truth can be far more lethal than a rattlers bite.