Quinn Colson

Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run. Before he was an Army Ranger who came home to become Tibbehah County Sheriff and take down a corrupt system, Quinn Colson was a kid who got into trouble--a lot of it. So when juvenile delinquent TJ Byrd insists that she doesn''t know who killed her mother-an unreliable addict who has disappeared-Quinn''s inclined to believe her. But no one else does--not the town, not the sheriff in a neighboring county, not her mother''s older boyfriend, and certainly not Quinn''s friend and former deputy, U.S. Marshal Lillie Virgil. The Byrd family has always been trouble, and sixteen-year-old TJ is known for petty theft, fighting, and general hellraising. She''s also no fool, and when she senses she''s about to take the fall for her mother''s murder, TJ, her boyfriend, her best friend, and