New York Times" bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more Joe s eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors aren t sure if she ll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it says she ran away from him, too and there s evidence that points to another man. But Joe knows in his gut who s responsible. What he doesn t know is the kind of danger he s about to encounter. Cates is bad enough, but Cates s family is like none Joe has ever met before. Joe s going to find out the truth, even if it kills him. But this time, it just might.