For fans of C.J. Box and Jess Lourey, award-winning author Shannon Baker sends Nebraska sheriff Kate Fox into the Costa Rican jungle—where a wildlife trafficking ring holds the people she loves, and no badge will save her.

Out of her jurisdiction. Out of her depth. Out of time.

Kate Fox thought she’d traded danger on the Nebraska plains for a quieter life—and a real chance with Baxter. But when he vanishes in the Costa Rican jungle—and her niece Carly is arrested while trying to free trafficked wildlife—Kate is pulled thousands of miles from home and straight into a nightmare.

An ex-sheriff used to chasing cattle thieves, Kate’s now facing something far deadlier: a wildlife smuggling ring trading jaguars, sloths, and venomous snakes for millions. In a desperate bid to save Carly, she goes undercover in the traffickers’ world—where one wrong word could get her killed, and the only law is survival.

But somewhere in the jungle, Baxter is still out there. And the deeper Kate goes undercover, the more she realizes saving the people she loves may cost her the one thing she can’t get back—her life.

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Praise for Shannon Baker:

"...terrific series..." —Catriona McPherson, multi-award-winning author of A Gingerbread House

"...Baker knocks the wind out of you..." —Carolyn Ridder Aspenson, USA Today bestselling author of Damaging Secrets

“Shannon Baker gets better with every book.” —Amazon Charts bestselling author Jess Lourey

"...winning characters and a stunning setting…" —Mystery Scene

"A wonderful western mystery not to be missed! Enjoy!" —Fresh Fiction

"...laugh-out-loud humor and heart-stopping suspense...” —Gwen Florio, author of the Nora Best and Julia Geary series

"Baker serves up a ballsy heroine, a colorful backdrop, and a surprising ending." —Kirkus Reviews
"...Baker offers readers a protagonist and a place they will love coming back to visit book after book." —William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author

"...perfect blend of small-town atmosphere, intriguing plot-line, and down-to-earth characters affectionately called Sandhillers." —Christine Carbo, author of the bestselling Glacier Mystery Series

About The Author

Shannon Baker

Shannon Baker is the award-winning author of The Desert Behind Me and the Kate Fox series, along with the Nora Abbott mysteries and the Michaela Sanchez Southwest Crime Thrillers. She is the proud recipient of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2014 and 2017-18 Writer of the Year Award. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. She now lives on the edge of the desert in Tucson with her crazy Weimaraner and her favorite human. A lover of the great outdoors, she can be found backpacking, traipsing to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, skiing mountains and plains, kayaking lakes, river running, hiking, cycling, and scuba diving whenever she gets a chance. Arizona sunsets notwithstanding, Baker is, and always will be a Nebraska Husker. Go Big Red.