Sheriff Kurt Muller, aging hippie, single father, and son of one of Aspen#146;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#146;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#146;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.