In the dusty town of Redemption Gulch, northern Arizona Territory, 1878, death doesn't always come with bullets.
When the most powerful man in the county turns up dead and the land titles of twelve families vanish without a trace, no one dares point a finger at the killer - except one woman.
Soledad Vargas is a mixed-blood widow, a weaver and shepherdess, a quiet devotee of the Souls of Purgatory - and someone wants her dead before she can say what she knows.
Former marshal Elías Colt returns to the town he fled five years ago, carrying a guilt he's never managed to bury. What he doesn't expect to find is a woman who prays for the dead, moving through the world of the living protected by something no rifle can stop.
An unsolved mystery. A love that was waiting for him exactly where he wasn't looking. And a very thin line between the dead who rest easy, and the dead who still have accounts to settle.
