She soon realizes the spirit who led her to the first body only appears to those about to die. With the tension, heat, and body count rising, Nicky's actions take a reckless and dangerous turn, her behavior and emotions driven by elements outside of her control. She loves the combination of her two careers because it gives her the ability not only to teach her students about the biochemical effects of poison, but also to use said poisons very creatively in her murder mysteries (along with other diabolical methods). The two investigations collide as fires erupt on and off the Pueblo. Carol Potenza is a biochemistry professor by day and a mystery author by night. Carol Potenza is a biochemistry professor by day and a mystery author by night. But when the trail leads back to her best friend, Nicky is torn between her loyalties and her job.

Begging Nicky to help him find the snitch, her former lover-and New Mexico State Police Chief-barrels back into her life, endangering her growing relationship with Conservation Agent Franco Martinez. Someone in the Fire-Sky police department is warning Albuquerque's most vicious drug gang of undercover operations on the Pueblo. But as Nicky investigates the cowboy's erratic last days, his death turns more and more sinister. When Fire-Sky Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is guided by an eerie spirit to the body of a missing cowboy, it should've been a cut and dry case-the New Mexico summer heat must have driven the poor guy to cool off in an isolated water tank with tragic consequences. From the award-winning author of Hearts of the Missing and the Nicky Matthew Mysteries series

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