Shinney Forest Cloaks

In the third Royce Madison Mystery, Sheriff Madison and her deputies are searching for a missing woman. A newcomer to Timber County disappears without a trace. When there is the murder of that woman's brother, the plot most certainly thickens.

Royce not only has her hands full with this crime, but there is also a planned protest against the burial of a homosexual solider.

In addition, her personal life seems to be falling apart. Royce's fifteen year relationship is ending. The sheriff is now facing her midlife crisis and she fears her life will never again be happy. She longs for the return of tranquility in her Colorado mountain town. As well as tranquility's return to her life.