Hotshot producer Mark Evering can’t understand why his daughter Merissa has run off with a shady lawyer twice her age when her father has given her everything—including a Betty Ford detox for her high-school graduation. Saxon, hired to bring her back home, follows the trail to the wide-open Mexican border town of Tijuana, where he confronts a powerful landowner and his beautiful wife, an arrogant matador, a tough and humorless Tijuana cop—and the most gruesome murder of his career.

“Roberts is fine-tuning his plotting skill with each new Saxon novel.” (Booklist)

Excerpt: From her school picture, Merissa Evering was no exception, a pretty kid. Guys like Mark Evering always had gorgeous daughters, whom they managed to screw up through indifference and neglect. Now, at the age of 21, she had run off with a shady lawyer twice her age and her father had hired me to find her, a California golden girl whose glitter had tarnished from overuse.

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Publication Year: 1989

Pages: 228