"...A dangerous game of intimidation..."

Previous C.J. Box novels have made the best-seller list, and this latest story has all of the same ingredients that made them hits. How far would you go to save someone you love? Jack and Melissa learn the answer when faced with a problem situation after they adopt baby Angelina. Nine months after they bring her home, they receive a call from the adoption agency that the birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights, and now wants his daughter back. The boy's father is a powerful judge who says that he wants his son to face up to his responsibilities, and he's willing to use all of his legal power to make it happen. When Jack and Melissa meet with the father and son, it is apparent to them that there is something sinister about the pair, and that love for Angelina is not the motivation for their actions. A dangerous game of intimidation and double-dealings quickly create a situation where the young couple fear for the safety of their child.

C. J. Box is also author of the popular mystery series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The series began in 2002 with "Open Season," where Joe races against time to save an endangered species. Joe has just taken the job of game warden in Twelve Sheep County, Wyoming. He is struggling to live up to the reputation of his predecessor while also supporting a wife and family on a meager salary.

Following the success of "Open Season," Box continued the series with a new book each year, the latest in 2008 titled "Blood Trail."

Game warden Joe Pickett is now a special agent reporting directly to the governor. It is elk hunting season, and someone has been hunting the hunters. A high-profile anti-hunting activist is in town with his supporters, and the lines are drawn between them and local hunters, with Pickett caught in the middle.

Box also wrote a stand-alone thriller in 2008, "Blue Heaven." Set in rural Idaho, Blue Heaven is the story of two innocent children onthe-run. Twelve-year-old Annie and her younger brother William have witnessed a murder and have fled into the woods. They are being pursued by four men, who are involved with the crime, men who know who they are and where their mother lives. The killers are retired Los Angeles policemen, so it is easy for them to persuade the local sheriff to put them in charge of the search for the children. The children meet rancher Jess Rawlins who isn't afraid to go up against the killers to protect them. But can one man stop four killers?

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