"As the only female Native American officer on the Bryson City, North Carolina police force, Inola Walela must always play her A game. All bets are off when during a routine traffic stop the passenger insists her son has been kidnapped but is struck by a car before Inola can glean any hard facts. An altercation ensues and Inola's partner is felled by a bullet, possibly from her gun. On administrative leave, fraught with guilt for allegedly kiling her partner, and obsessed with the possibility of a missing child out there somewhere, she defies the force and her fiancé, Sheriff Steven Hawk, Inola sets off on her own journey to find the missing boy."--Page 4 of cover.
