New Mexico Territory. 1903. The most dangerous person in the canyon arrived before dawn and took the corner table.
Mae Dunnmore has been called many things across seventeen years of marriage to one of the most powerful and corrupt men in the territory. Obedient. Unremarkable. Grieving. She answered to all of them. Invisibility was never her limitation. It was her strategy.
When a flash flood buries every road in and out of the Butterfield Trading Post, eight strangers arrive on horsebacks and find themselves trapped inside with nowhere to go and no way to call for help. None of them know what she is or what is chained to her wrist.
By the time they find out, the flood will be the least of their problems.