With a killer on the loose, a Native American detective must protect his community—and the woman he once loved—in this suspenseful romance. A note, impaled by a knife on Bill Cloudman's door, tells the former tribal agent a murderer has escaped. The vicious madman who murdered Bill's partner—and cost Bill his job and the community's trust—is on the loose in the South Dakota badlands again. Now Bill is determined to put him behind bars once and for all. Meanwhile, the woman Bill loved and lost has returned to Eagle Rock reservation. Now working as a newspaper reporter, she is equally determined to restore her own reputation—with the story of the escaped killer. With everything on the line, Bill will do whatever it takes to protect her . . . and his guarded heart.