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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Returning to her small Colorado hometown to find her old high-school flame newly single and a new gas field threatening her family's cattle ranch, eco-activist Addie Decker ignites an armed conflict revealing cold truths about love and family, forgiveness and self-discovery.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel...with both passion and compassion, Greaves takes readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West. <br>--<i>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</i> <p/>Returning to her small Colorado hometown</b> to find her old high school flame newly single and a new gas field threatening her family's cattle ranch, eco-activist Addie Decker ignites an armed conflict revealing cold truths about love and family, forgiveness and self-discovery. <p/><b>C. JOSEPH GREAVES</b> spent 25 years as an LA trial lawyer before devoting his talents to fiction. Sometimes writing as Chuck Greaves, he has been a finalist for most of the major awards in crime fiction including the Shamus, Macavity, Lefty, and Audie, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards. He is the author of five previous novels, most recently <i>Tom & Lucky</i>, a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Best Books of 2015 selection and finalist for the 2016 Harper Lee Prize. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the book critic for the <i>Four Corners Free Press</i> newspaper in southwestern Colorado, where he lives and writes. You can visit him at www.chuckgreaves.com.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Masterful...The history of the land and the people who populate it are interwoven into the very fabric of a plot that could grace the headlines in current news cycles. <br>--<b><i>DURANGO HERALD</b></i> <p/>The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel...with both passion and compassion, Greaves takes readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West. <br>--<b><i>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</b></i> <p/>Greaves' environmentalist passions echo on every page without interfering with the story, thanks to his convincing characters, breakneck pace, and lyrical depictions of rural life. <br>--<b><i>BOOKLIST</b></i> <p/>This modern Western delves into the cold truths about the price of progress, the bonds of family, and the journey of self-discovery. <br>--<b><i>BOULDER LIFESTYLE</b></i> <p/>Timely and well-told...this compelling tale could have been ripped from the headlines. <br>--<b>ANNE HILLERMAN</b>, author of <i>The Tale Teller</i> and other novels in the Chee, Leaphorn and Manuelito mystery series <p/>Take a walk through <i>Church of the Graveyard Saints</i>, take a walk into one hell of a book with one of my favorite authors, Chuck Greaves. <br>--<b>CRAIG JOHNSON</b>, author of the Walt Longmire series, the basis of the Netflix drama <i>Longmire</i> <p/>No stranger to the landscape of the modern west, Greaves produces a tightly plotted drama that explores the extremes of preservation and development, and the political theater that can destroy everything in between. <br>--<b>BEAU L'AMOUR</b>, author (with Louis L'Amour) of <i>No Traveler Returns</i> <p/>With prose at once lyrical and propulsive, Greaves weaves a spellbinding tale of multigenerational love and conflict set against the ongoing battle to preserve the peerless landscape of the American West. <br>--<b>SCOTT GRAHAM</b>, author of the National Park Mystery Series<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>C. JOSEPH GREAVES</b> spent 25 years as an LA trial lawyer before devoting his talents to fiction. Sometimes writing as Chuck Greaves, he has been a finalist for most of the major awards in crime fiction including the Shamus, Macavity, Lefty, and Audie, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards. He is the author of five previous novels, most recently <i>Tom & Lucky</i>, a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Best Books of 2015 selection and finalist for the 2016 Harper Lee Prize. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the book critic for the <i>Four Corners Free Press</i> newspaper in southwestern Colorado, where he lives and writes. You can visit him at www.chuckgreaves.com.

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