Somewhere just outside Phoenix lurks a "peeping tom," a killer. He's abandoning his partially clad victims in the cool, dark desert, terrifying even the most intrepid Arizona women. Enter Joanna Brady, a young widow, and Cochise County's newly elected sheriff. Summoned to a police academy in Phoenix for officer training, she swiftly dodges her chauvinistic instructor for the state's hottest case. But when the killer strikes Joanna's female classmate,...

When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the prejudice and hostility of a mistrustful, male-dominated police force and solve a grisly double homicide that threatens to tear the sleepy desert community to pieces.