Former Deputy Billy Lafitte is a no-good, crap-for-brains, despicable and dangerous traitor Special Agent Franklin Rome is sure of it. So sure, in fact, that hes willing to investigate outside departmental bounds. Willing to blackmail and bribe his fellow lawmen into helping him. Willing to ferret Lafitte out of whatever snake-hole hes hidden himself in, and do what the too-lax government wouldnt let him do back in Yellow Medicine county, just months ago And Romes plan is working. Squeeze a mans ex-wife, especially an ex-wife as unstable as Ginny Lafitte, and watch her overprotective man appear from thin air to stand by his family. No matter that Romes had to bend a few rules in order to make it happen, Billys end will justify Romes means. Of course, Rome didnt count on Billy riding in to save the day on a turquoise motorcycle with a beard, fifty extra pounds of muscle, and the weight of a man named Steel God at his back. Nor did he think Billy would go and get himself caught up with paint-huffing, knife-wielding rednecks. And Rome certainly never predicted that a broken-hearted, vengeful woman named Colleen would be just as hot for Lafittes blood as he is