It is 1924 and Torrance Flynn has decided that Mitchell Desolates may not be so bad after all. She has known him forever as the friend of her cousin, but now she is beginning to think that she might just fall in love with him. Everything changes, however, when Mitchell is drawn into a puzzling crime which Torrance's stepfather, Marshal Max Roundy, is trying to solve. It will alter Torrance's feelings toward Max, open up Mitchell's murky home-life to public scrutiny, and ultimately change the course of his future. The crime will also draw deputy marshal, Gideon McKenna into odds with his boss. The victim of the crime might just be the woman Gideon has been searching for all his life. In this the seventh in the series The McKenna Chronicles, family loyalties and friendships will be tested. As teenagers come of age and betrayals come to light, even the closest of families threaten to be pulled apart.