Blood Ties

Julie Collins is trapped in a dead-end job at the Bear Butte County Sheriff’s Office—a position her took out of desperation after the brutal murder of her Lakota half-brother. Three years have passed, his case is cold, and her coping mechanisms—tequila, cigarettes and dubious men—no longer serve as excuses for her grief; they define who she is.

When the body of a sixteen-year-old white girl surfaces and the death details are alarmingly similar to her brother’s murder, her friend and local PI, Kevin Wells, admits he’d been hired to find the missing kid before she turned up dead.

Julie is roped into helping Kevin tie up loose ends regarding the girl’s disappearance…and that’s when things begin to unravel. Lies are revealed. Bullets start flying. Yet nothing—not even death threats—will stop Julie from digging for the truth and finding the justice for this girl that her brother was denied.