399 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 2009 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
399 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 2009 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they'd longed for, the couple finds a pregnant woman--more dead than alive--and soon they are sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Austin.