Small-town deputy Charity Bishop’s run for sheriff is complicated by a dicey past and a family of crooks determined to punish her ambition. When the sister of Charity’s high school sweetheart confesses to a brutal murder, Charity accepts that solving the crime—and having any hope of winning the election—means partnering with the man who threatens everything she’s worked for. The man who left town twelve years earlier, taking her heart along with him.
 

That man is Grady West, a single father who finds it hard to forgive his former lover for arresting his sister. But while Grady struggles to prove his sister’s innocence and Charity struggles to keep him at arm’s length, they find themselves falling in love all over again—while a desperate killer plots to boost the body count.