Ex-prosecutor Mary Crow didn't expect a hero's welcome when she returned home to Pisgah County, North Carolina. But what she did expect was the job she'd been promised in the DA's office. Instead, she found she'd worn out her welcome before she even arrived and that she has more than a few enemies among the supporters of the corrupt sheriff she'd caught sidelining in murder years before. The new sheriff was one of Mary's childhood schoolmates, timid and nerdy Jerry Cochran. Only Cochran is neither nerdy nor timid anymore. And when a young girl is found brutally murdered and everyone, including the girl's parents and the police, is sure the killer is a young, mystical Ani Zaguhi Cherokee named Ridge Standingdeer, Mary's first case in her own law firm slams her into the heart of a controversy.

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