Scorpion Rain Laura Winslow is the name she chose for herself - a false identity the part-Hopi cyber-investigator can hide behind to escape a reservation past too dangerous, and too painful, to acknowledge. But now a friend has been kidnapped following a bloddy shootout on the Arizona border that left a wake of unthinkable carnage and Laura asking why, like a hungry predator, the merciless Sonoran Desert has swallowed up another life, one that Laura is not going to give up on. In the company of a tough reporter who once escaped the wilderness, she is about the cross the line where civilization ends - entering a majestic wasteland where corruption, lies, and violence are bred and nurtured. But the secrets waiting for them in this hopeless place may be Laura's worst nightmare . . . and impossible to escape alive.