Nowhere to run

Summary: Joe Pickett is in his last week as the temporary game warden in the isolated town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the surrounding mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who's gone missing, an Olympic hopeful who'd been training in the region, then vanished. The farther out Joe rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he's right to be concerned, because what awaits him is like nothing he's ever dealt with, like something out of an old story, except this is all too real and all too deadly. When he'd first saddled up, he'd thought of this simply as his last patrol, but it just may be his last patrol ever!