1 New York Times"bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, and now he has even more Joe s eighteen-year-old daughter, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: She has been found in a ditch along the highway alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. Cates denies having anything to do with it, but Joe knows in his gut who s responsible. What he doesn t know is the kind of danger he s about to encounter. Cates is bad enough, but Cates s family is like none Joe has ever met.