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When drug sellers killed her lawman spouse, Joanna Brady promised she'd keep on his great work no real matter what the price. With courage, resolution, and dogged dedication, she questioned the standing quo—and gained. Today, as recently elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must fight the bias and violence of the mistrustful, male dominated police and resolve a grisly double murder that threatens to rip the tired desert neighborhood to items. For both systems cooking in the severe Southwestern sunlight are linked by threads that reach back generations—and by disastrous household strategies of greed, hate, and surprising misuse that might ruin the innocent combined with the guilty.