#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with the second of the Gunnie Rose series, in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful that forces from across three territories want to possess it. Dixie is just about the last part of the former United States of America Lizbeth wants to visit. Worse, what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. She finds a surprising ally, a wizard, who's also after the crate ... because its contents can make a permanent change in Dixie. But can they track it down before the powers-that-be in the town of Sally track down Lizbeth and her wizard? "A gripping, twisty-turny thrill ride of a read."—Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls