When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don t take kindly to her – and Sabrina s mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI – and the men running the county s opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals – with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War.

The war might be over, but its legacy remains – and V.I. s survival depends on keeping one step ahead in a game she doesn t even know she s playing…