When country music singers Wilder & Grace, a side act stuck on a bare-bones tour with a has-been southern rock band, stop at a lonely Arizona diner at two in the morning and find an abandoned backpack full of banded $100 bills, Grace impulsively grabs it. Money like that could make their dreams come true. Instead, it's the beginning of their worst nightmare, setting off a desperate pursuit across the West with nowhere to hide.
What Grace couldn't know was the wayward backpack was first stolen by cartel boss Luis Reynaldo's mistress, joining forces with his favorite assassin. They seize an opportunity to get away from their homicidal overlord after a drug deal in Oklahoma City goes disastrously wrong. Once Luis discovers Angel and Chang are not among the casualties, he obsessively sets out to exact his revenge. Both couples on the run find they must do whatever it takes to escape their old lives and create the futures they crave, but the risk and the bloody toll become increasingly higher.
When country music singers Wilder & Grace, a side act stuck on a bare-bones tour with a has-been southern rock band, stop at a lonely Arizona diner at two in the morning and find an abandoned backpack full of banded $100 bills, Grace impulsively grabs it. Money like that could make their dreams come true. Instead, it's the beginning of their worst nightmare, setting off a desperate pursuit across the West with nowhere to hide.
What Grace couldn't know was the wayward backpack was first stolen by cartel boss Luis Reynaldo's mistress, joining forces with his favorite assassin. They seize an opportunity to get away from their homicidal overlord after a drug deal in Oklahoma City goes disastrously wrong. Once Luis discovers Angel and Chang are not among the casualties, he obsessively sets out to exact his revenge. Both couples on the run find they must do whatever it takes to escape their old lives and create the futures they crave, but the risk and the bloody toll become increasingly higher.
Kathleen Morris is an award-winning writer, an aficionado of American and Western history, is a graduate of Prescott College in Arizona and lives and writes in the desert Southwest. Her debut novel, The Lily of the West, the story of Big Nose Kate Haroney, was published in 2019 to critical acclaim and was awarded Best First Western Novel from Western Fictioneers. Her second novel, The Wind at Her Back was published in November 2020, and The Transformation of Chastity James, a Western Writers of America SPUR Award Finalist in 2021. Fallen Child, a novel of revenge followed in 2022. Visit her website www.KathleenMorrisauthor.com for more and to see what she's currently working on.
Morris (The Lily Of The West) crafts a thriller that's equal parts
romance, character study, and white-knuckle road chase. Morris's
focus on character development and skillful rendering of
backstories adds a level of richness to the plot. Readers will find
themselves sympathizing with the main players, even as they choose
gruesome actions to survive, and no one escapes without blood on
their hands. The characters are equal parts tough and clever,
without coming across as superhuman, and the final confrontation
will satisfy even the most astute reader. -- Booklife
This is a pulse-pounding thrill ride full of heart, passion, hopes,
desires, and fear that could be a country song of its own. It's all
about Risk. - Matt Cost, Author of the Goff Langdon and Clay Wolfe
Mystery Series
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