Texas Outlaw

Rory Yates is a Texas Ranger who sees the job as a matter of justice. He has no wish to be called a hero, but his girlfriend, the country singer Willow Dawes, has written a song about his bravery, and the attention follows him everywhere.

His next assignment takes him away from it. He is sent to Rio Lobo, a remote West Texas town with two stoplights, where the Chief of Police makes it clear the place already has one Texas Ranger too many.

Rio Lobo Detective Ariana Delgado asked for Rory by name. A local councilwoman has died in what looks like an accident, and Delgado is the only person in town who believes it was murder. Rory starts pulling at the case and finds small-town secrets, favors and lies, a web as crooked as Texas law is straight.

More people may die unless he reaches the truth first, and that means bending the rules of the investigation. A lawman who believes in justice has to decide how far he will go to get it. This is a crime thriller set in rural Texas, with a murder inquiry at its center and a town that resists being looked into.