Before he was Tibbehah County Sheriff, Quinn Colson was a kid who got into trouble - a lot of it. So when juvenile delinquent TJ Byrd insists that she doesn't know who killed her mother, Quinn's inclined to believe her. But no one else does - not the town, not the local officials, not her mother's boyfriend, and certainly not Quinn's friend and former deputy, U.S. Marshal Lillie Virgil. TJ's no fool, and when she senses she's about to take the fall for her mother's murder, she, her boyfriend, her best friend, and her nine-year-old brother go on the run. As Lillie Virgil tracks the kids across a trail of burglaries, stolen cars, and even a kidnapping, Quinn sets out to find the truth. As the bloody evidence piles up, Quinn knows someone truly evil is at work here - and that puts TJ and her friends in more danger than they can imagine.
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