Maxwell Wilcox came to the Rogue Valley to get out from under his grief. After losing his wife to cancer, he took a temporary sheriff's post in a quiet mountain town, hoping Southern Oregon would do the work he couldn't do himself.

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Then a body falls out of the sky.

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An eyewitness swears they saw it happen. Medical examiner Dr. Heather Stone can't explain the injuries. And as Wilcox investigates, the incidents keep coming, each one stranger and more violent than the last.

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What started as a place to hide becomes something he has to defend. Someone is targeting the valley, and Wilcox is the only one asking why.

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A character-driven mystery set in the forests and small towns of Southern Oregon, for readers of William Kent Krueger, Louise Penny, and Allen Eskens.