Thea Barlow, an ex-teacher from Chicago, gets a job as an editor for Western True Adventures, a magazine of the Old West. Her first assignment is to get the story of Halfway Halt, a defunct whorehouse in Hijax, Wyoming. When she arrives, she's met with anger and hostility from the townspeople, who suspect she's there as a new girl for the whorehouse The residents do not want the old ways revived in their town.When a local woman is murdered outside the town hall, and another local is found unconscious in a barrow pit, Thea realizes that someone is going to great lengths to keep Halfway Hall's decades-old secrets hidden and she must solve the mystery in order to save her own life.
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