Nurse Kit Carson's life hangs by a thread. The "Deadly Gripe" has the town of High Plains under the gun and an assassin known as the "Lone Gunman" is delivering his own twisted form of justice. Meanwhile, Sheriff Bully Ratzer is hellbent on winning the Governor's seat and Balmy Wether comes back to town to expose him .Fiction House, Ltd.

Linda Collison's first novel, Star-Crossed, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2006, was chosen by the New York Public Library to be among the Books for the Teen Age - 2007, and inspired the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series. Born in Baltimore, Linda moved to Wyoming when she was twenty-four and had been on the move ever since.