Preparing to leave his temporary game warden position in Baggs, Wyoming, Joe Pickett investigates strange attacks on campers, a case that is complicated by a missing runner and Joe's fears that his job will end for more deadly reasons.

Having recently lost his job as a Wyoming game warden, Joe Pickett is recruited by the devious governor Rulon to oversee a murder investigation involving a confessed killer and overlapping jurisdictions that enabled the man's release.

Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...

Nine months after adopting a baby, Jack and Melissa are devastated when their daughter's teenage birth father and her grandfather, a powerful Denver judge, seek to put aside the adoption, and Jack and Melissa suspect their motivations are sinister.

Discovering that a friend and fellow game warden has committed suicide, Joe Pickett is assigned to the man's district in Jackson, Wyoming, and becomes a pawn in a struggle between environmental extremists and their powerful adversaries.