"While tracking a wounded elk through a snowstorm, Joe Pickett makes a gruesome discovery: the mutilated body of a university professor wedged inside a mysterious structure. When Joe attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extremists, and Governor Colter Allen. Meanwhile, Nate Romanowski is rebuilding his falconry company--and financing this through crypto mining, assisted by Geronimo Jones. Nate is then approached by a group of militant activists that Wyoming join other Western states and secedes from the union--by force, if necessary. As a storm of peril gathers around them, Joe and Nate confront it in different ways--and maybe, for the first time, on opposite sides." - Cover.