The Rimrocks

Like a monument to the vast prairie, the sandstone cliffs just outside Billings, Montana are integral to my new novel, 'The Killing Zone'. A portion of the Rimrocks, called Sacrifice Cliff, was where fearless Crow youth rode their blindfolded ponies off the precipice with the hope that their offering would cure their tribe of a deadly Smallpox epidemic. On that plateau in my novel, under a summer’s night sky, Indian lore, hopes and dreams and criminal intent draw a group of companions into an unlikely encounter with a homicidal ex-convict and his gang of cohorts. With no witnesses except perhaps the spirits of the 19th century Crow horsemen, it’s a race for Sheriff Jim Buchanan to find and bring to justice the runaway murderers before they make their escape to Canada.