"There is one set of tracks leading to and from the snow-bound cabin of Eugene Pettijohn, dead of a gunshot wound, who was known to be alive after the snow began to fall. These tracks were made by Herb Schultz, an unpopular deadbeat neighbor who discovered the body. Shultz is arrested but Dr. Erica Merrill, a young veterinarian trying to establish a practice in her hometown, doesn't think Schultz committed the murder. Her boyfriend, deputy sheriff Clay Caldwell, is skeptical, her powerful father interfering, and citizens of the small Northern Idaho county seat antagonistic. Her fledgling veterinary practice is threatened, and her relationship with Clay is strained. She decides that she must solve the mystery herself and sets out to prove her point and win acceptance as a person in her own right."--Publisher. |