Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 296 Publisher: Touchstone Former Black Ops army sniper Mercy Gunderson is not adjusting well to of The Laid-back rhythm of civilian life on her family's ranch in South Dakota. To fill her time. Mercy accepts a temporary bartending gig at a local watering hole. Yet her attempts to settle in back home are tested when Titan Oil. a Canadian company proposing to run an underground pipeline through Eagle River County. sends Jason Hawley. Mercy's former army buddy. to the area to convince ranchers to get behind the project.While local business owners support the pipeline. Hawley's presence riles the landowners. and Mercy is torn. After ugly threats and multiple altercations escalate tensions in the county. Mercy discovers Hawley's utally mutilated body in the bar parking lot. When it appears Sheriff Dawson cares more about campaigning for reelection...