A newly appointed small-town sheriff hunting a killer in Oregon’s rain-soaked mountains uncovers a criminal operation buried deep in the wilderness, but when the danger reaches her teenage son, she must decide how far she will cross the line between sheriff and mother to bring him home alive. Some lines should never be crossed. Four months into the job, Sheriff Marla Williams is still wearing a badge that feels borrowed. Then a hiker is found dead near the boundary of Kestrel Ridge National Park. At first, the scene looks like a tragic fall. Wet rock. Bad footing. A body hidden beneath the timber. But Marla sees details that refuse to fit: blood where it should not be, strange grit in a dead man’s boot, an abandoned pack, and signs that someone may have wanted the death to look accidental. Boundary_Line_FINAL_Publish_Rea… Soon another hiker disappears. Then another trail leads into the forgotten roads beyond the marked paths. What begins as a murder investigation exposes something far larger hidden beneath the Oregon wilderness: secret access routes, nighttime vehicles, an illegal operation protected by isolation, and people willing to kill anyone who wanders too close. Marla is fighting terrain, jurisdiction, a department stretched dangerously thin, and a town that still compares every decision she makes to the sheriff who came before her. But the case becomes terrifyingly personal when her sixteen-year-old son, Miles, is pulled toward the same mountains. Their relationship is already cracking beneath grief, anger, and all the things neither of them has said since the death of Miles’s father. Now Marla must hunt through storm-soaked timber while confronting the possibility that the threat is not merely hiding somewhere beyond the county line. It may have been closer all along. And when the people she trusts begin carrying secrets of their own, Marla discovers that protecting her son and protecting her badge may demand two very different kinds of justice. BOUNDARY LINE is a tense, atmospheric crime thriller about murder, corruption, family, loyalty, and the terrible cost of discovering that the people who know your secrets best may be the ones with the most to hide.
