OUTLAW CITY

Britt Gundersen spent five years outrunning her hometown. Then a ten-year-old video of her dancing at a bachelor party goes viral, her Chicago startup fires her before lunch, and her father's voicemail arrives with three words she doesn't want to hear: blackmail situation.

By dinner, the mayor of Wellspring is dead in a shot-up Tahoe. Britt is on a red-eye home to bury a man she hasn't spoken to in years, and to face a sister who stayed behind and never forgave her for leaving.

Waiting in town: a sheriff who coached her JV team and lies for a living. A casino-brothel with a parrot that insults its owner. And Dante Hobbes, her father's oldest friend, charming as a church bell, who runs the cameras. Every suite at Fire & Brimstone is wired. Every judge, lawman and legislator in the county has been filmed doing something they would kill to hide. And Dante is building five thousand more rooms in time for a presidential convention.

Britt and her sister Sam, a mechanic who can read brass off a crime scene and crawl any air duct in the Great Basin, go undercover inside the club. Their allies are a bounty hunter, a repo woman and the veterinarian who was married to her. Their enemies include a cartel, a DEA agent who doesn't pick up, and a dead girl who isn't.

A neo-noir thriller about shame, family and who gets to decide what a woman is worth. Funny, fast and bruised.

An adult thriller. It contains violence, strong language and adult themes.