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set the dark on fire
in a southern california town ablaze with sordid secrets a free spirited biologist and a straitlaced sheriff join forces to investigate a suspicious killing and find themselves getting a little too close to the flames ... br shay phillips knows her way around dark canyon . shes handy with a gun and can track a wild animal with the best of them . its humans who usually give her the most trouble . and with a hormonally charged teenage brother to raise and an admitted weakness for the wrong kind of man theyre giving her plenty of trouble these days . then theres the matter of murder . as an expert on mountain lions shay is skeptical when a local prostitute turns up mauled without a drop of blood near the body . br now together with the towns newly arrived sheriff luke meza a las vegas city boy with his own dark secrets shay must navigate a dangerous valley filled with angry ex lovers unfaithful spouses and poisonous snakes in a desperate search for the killer . but when suspicion falls on her own brother and her attraction to luke rages into a full on erotic affair can shay quell the fires inside her long enough to uncover the truth
mass market paperbound bantam 2009 isbn13 9780553592023 isbn10 0553592025
abridged n isbn 13 9780553592023 number in series 1 number of pages 401 publisher random house release date 1251158400000