In 1977, country music has a new queen. When her latest song hits number one, Laney McKay-America's sweetheart-returns home to Grand County, Colorado, for a charity concert and a little peace beneath the Rocky Mountains. Fame can wait. The mountains can't.
But Laney isn't just coming home to rest. She's carrying a secret-one tied to the land she never truly left behind. Before she can leave again, she vanishes.
Taken somewhere below the timberline, Laney disappears into a wilderness that doesn't give anything back easily.
Now it's up to Under-sheriff Dane Lee and Deputy Nickey Lynn to find her.
Their search will drag them through the worst the high country offers-brutal weather, thin air, and men who don't want to be found. Behind it all lurks a shadowy crime syndicate known only as The Insurgence-and something older still, a presence tied to the Ute spirits that have never left these mountains.
From the deep forests of Rocky Mountain National Park to the open wheat fields of western Kansas, Dane and Nickey will follow every lead, every rumor... every trace of a voice that suddenly went silent.
Because in the Rockies-people don't just disappear.
novel.