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Tormented lives brutally intersect in Stroby's powerful thriller, the
possible first in a new series to feature Sara Cross, the lone woman
sheriff's deputy in Florida's St. Charles County. One night, Cross, a
single mother who's coping with her son's leukemia and the remnants of
a two-years-gone postdivorce fling with fellow deputy Billy Flynn,
arrives on the edge of a cypress swamp where Flynn has just shot a
22-year-old black man from New Jersey allegedly fleeing a traffic stop.
Sara tries to smother her still-simmering lust for no-good Billy, but
her cop instincts drive her toward a dismaying truth that hurtles her
into a violent showdown with an aging New Jersey contract killer
stricken with a rare cancer. While relentlessly probing the eternal
mystery of why bright and capable women fall for dangerous losers,
Stroby (The Heartbreak Lounge) explores moral choices that leave his devastatingly real characters torn between doing nothing and risking everything.