Golden Trail

Tanner Layne and Raquel Merrick fell in love young, hard and fast, and both of them knew a beautiful life they thought would be forever.

Until Rocky left Layne — no explanation, no going back.

Layne escapes the ’Burg only to come back years later because his ex-wife has hooked up with the town jerk, and Layne needs to make sure his sons are raised right. Layne manages to avoid Rocky, but when Layne is shot three times while investigating a dirty cop, he can’t do that because Rocky stops avoiding him. They make a deal to work together to expose the dirty cop, but they have no idea of the strength of their enduring attraction or the sheer evil at work in the ’Burg.

As Tanner Layne and Raquel Merrick play their game and dance around the pull that draws them together, Layne has to discover the dark secrets buried so deep in Rocky’s heart that she doesn’t even know they’re there, while at the same time untangling a sinister web of crime so abhorrent it must be stopped at all costs.

To do it, Layne must enlist everyone — his ex-CIA mentor, Rocky’s detective brother, the town’s unpredictable informant, and his two teenage sons — all while stopping Rocky from doing something reckless and keeping their game secret so Layne doesn’t get himself killed.