Ranger Darren Matthews investigates the disappearance of the son of an Aryan Brotherhood member in the aftermath of Trump's election, venturing into a part of Louisiana where the law is less important, and asked to play the dangerous game of also gathering evidence to take down the Brotherhood. Timely, racially-charged and stylish. Locke is also the author of "Bluebird, Bluebird".

Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Book of the Month, Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.