Who hated good ole boy Billy Joe Williams and beautiful seventeen-year-old Maria Martinez enough to kill them? One thing's certain: their murders, on the eve of the big Frontier Days celebration, send Richter-scale tremors through the Anglo community, and Sheriff Charles Matthews has to get results . . . and fast. There's no hard evidence, not even a murder weapon. But in gossipy Carroll, nothing and no one ever goes entirely unpunished. And the harder the guilty try to hide from the truth, the worse it's going to get.