Sheriff Kurt Muller, aging hippie, single father, and son of one of Aspen's founders, finds himself confronted by more than the usual tensions between the chic international celebrity jet set and the local community fighting the resort's enormous growth. A man is dead, his washed-out body found in the Roaring Fork with a bullet hole behind one ear. A woman is missing, her handbag still hidden under Kurt Muller's Jeep seat. And the violence that is erupting around Aspen--violence laced with kinky sex, international politics, and local power--is leading Muller to the darkest truths a man can confront: about his past, about his family, and about another murder in the high Rocky Mountain air...