'The characters talk straight from the hip and the Wyoming landscape is its own kind of eloquence'New York Times

On December 24, Sheriff Walt Longmire is readingA Christmas Carolwhen he's interrupted by a young woman with a fine scar across her forehead and questions about Walt's predecessor, Lucian Connally. Walt doesn't recognize the mystery woman, but she knows him, and claims to have something she must return to Connally. Walt, at loose ends, agrees to help.

Lucian Connally swears he's never seen the woman before. Disappointed, she begins a story that takes them back to Christmas Eve 1988, a terrible, fatal crash and a young girl who had the slimmest chance of survival.Back to a whiskey-soaked World War II vet ready to fly a decommissioned plane and risk it all to save a life . . .