 The
woman found murdered in Texas' Anacacho Mountains,
her beauty queen looks ruined by carrion birds, is
Allie Armington's ex-best friend. The prime suspect,
the victim's handsome, mega-rich husband, just happened
to have once been the love of Allie's life. Though
she hadn't seen the couple for eight year's, Allie's
suddenly found herself thigh deep in a Tex/Mex conspiracy
involving cattle, oil and drugs… and a handsome
sheriff who makes her knees weak whenever he's around.
But there's something about him…
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The trouble started with a call from her sister,
a supermodel, in New York City. The next thing she
knew, Allie Armington, young, bright, successful
and slightly bored Texas attorney, was on a plane
to the Big Apple.
It was downhill from there.
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 Raised
in upper-class Manhattan society, she has settled in
small- town New Mexico, created a prospering counseling
practice and is preparing to marry her love, Mac Brantley,
a successful doctor and the younger son of a prominent
local family.
But everything starts to unravel the day Mac “kidnaps” Julia
and flies her to an idyllic wilderness setting for
a romantic mid-week picnic. Lightning strikes—literally—and
though her injury is minor, everything begins to change.
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It’s not that it’s so easy to say “yes”,
it’s just always too hard to say “no”.
When a phone rings, you answer it. When your sister
invites you to a super deluxe spa getaway, you say “sure”.
When your boyfriend tells you he’ll miss you,
you swoon.
You have that phone because you want people to call
you. You have that sister because she takes care
of you and you take care of her and it’s always
both and never neither. You have that boyfriend because
he makes you realize that your present has a future.
And you let all the world come into your life because
it fulfills you and it surprises you and it keeps
you alive. Except sometimes the opposite is true.
Sometimes all the innocent acts and good intentions
and happy expectations lead not to life but to death.
To murder.
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