The high Arizona desert in September is no place to be fooling around. Former cop Meg Gillis knows this better than anyone, but when the man in her life, Joe Reilly, unexpectedly drops out of the trip, she goes alone to Gunsite, the shooting school in Paulden, Arizona. Meg hasn't been to Gunsite since her husband Charlie died five years ago, but she's going back to retrain after a knife injury to her hand.
Founded by Lt. Colonel Jeff Cooper, Gunsite is Mecca to the gun cognoscenti, but now somebody seems bent on destroying its legend. Odd things are happening and no one will talk about it. When Meg uncovers a key piece of information, she realizes she's being drawn into a fight she can't win. There's a world of difference, though, between "not winning," and *losing,* and Meg isn't willing to admit that she's lost yet. Not this time. Not when everything she's ever believed in is at stake.
C.J. Songer's "forceful, gutsy prose" (Library Journal) won praise in her previous Meg Gillis novels, BAIT and HOOK. Through her work with the Glendale, California police department, and her familiarity with survival skills, detective work, and weapons (she's trained at the real Gunsite in Arizona), she brings riveting authenticity to her novels. Meg Gillis -- courageous, self-reliant, yet entirely human -- is fast becoming one of the most appealing and convincing heroines of the genre.