A hunter lies dead in a southeast Texas backwater. Part-time fishing guide Tracey Cole and his meth-manufacturing cousin are suspected in the crime, but Deuce River Preserve ranger Addie Derange isn't so sure they've got the right people. There's a new militia in town, her estranged brother is leaving cryptic messages on her phone, and the new owners of the local adhesives plant seem oddly out of place. Has her past followed her to this isolated swamp?