<P>Paramedic Zoe Chambers hoped a week at the Monongahela County Fair showing her horse and manning the ambulance would provide a much-needed diversion from recent events that continue to haunt her. An old friend a bossy nemesis and a teenage crush from her 4-H days fail to offer the distraction she had in mind. But ever the caregiver she soon bonds with a troubled teen and a grieving father.</p><p>Back in Vance Township a missing woman turns up dead leading Police Chief Pete Adams into a journey through her mysterious final hours. With each new clue the tragic circumstances of her death grow increasingly muddied. A cryptic phone call leads Pete to join Zoe for an evening at the fairgrounds where the annual school bus demolition derby concludes with a gruesome discovery and a new case that may or may not be connected to the first.</p><p>Pete's quest for the motive behind two homicides—and Zoe's stubborn determination to reunite a family—thrust them both onto a collision course with a violent and desperate felon.</P>
