He was cashing out. First the bullet in the back and now the death of his closest friend – it was time to go out with a bang. When he threw the dynamite he knew it was the end of the road for him. Waking up was a shock. Even more so to find himself tied down being operated on by a woman alone. She had to be plumb crazy out of her mind in order to help him. You didn’t fix an animal like him. You put him down with a bullet to the brain, before he could turn and devour…everything. She was good and he, well…he was bad.
When Sheriff Rafe Boudreau catches Tessa Maxwell climbing through the window of a house where she doesn’t belong, the crime rate isn’t the only thing that spikes. Turns out, trouble has followed the small-town schoolteacher to Shiloh Springs, and Rafe and the rest of the Boudreau clan must step in to keep her safe. Can they decipher the clues and end the danger Tessa faces before time runs out?