A thin strip of land
along the Rio Grande
where two countries collide

Winner of the 2010 Tony Hillerman Award for Best First Mystery

What sacrifices would you make to triumph over evil?
Would you sacrifice love? Your home? Would the risks be worth the payoff?

Chief of Police, Josie Gray, becomes a personal target for the Medrano Cartel and puts the town she vowed to protect at risk. How does an understaffed bordertown cop face a million dollar organization and win?

Publisher’s Weekly – Starred Review: Fields’s rich plotting, nonstop action, and deft characterizations show the personal side of the larger issue of drug cartels on both sides of the border.

Library Journal – Starred Review – Debut of the Month: Buckle your seat belts for an off-road trip full of adrenaline. Tough and determined to make her way in today’s Wild West, Josie is the type of police chief you’d want in your hometown, a gutsy new heroine who would be friends with Nevada Barr’s Anna Pigeon and probably Lori Armstrong’s Mercy Gunderson, too. This razor-fast thriller debut won the 2010 Tony Hillerman Prize for best first mystery set in the Southwest.

Booklist – Starred Review: In this debut novel, which has already won the 2010 Tony Hillerman Prize, Fields builds suspense with a well-wrought cast of characters who deal with deadly violence that’s particularly frightening for being all-too-believable. And no one does it better than Josie Gray, who persists in the face of unspeakable danger. Readers will want to see much more of her.