His boss wants him dead. His ex-wife wants him to eliminate the people who continue to threaten her. His friends have no idea of his hidden life. The police want him to answer questions. His occasional business partner can't tell him the truth. And the biggest drug boss in the region wants to kill him.
Gil Telles has spent months pursuing his daughter's killers, but physical and mental wounds have taken a toll. He decides it is time to stop before the people closest to him are hurt or killed. Despite his best efforts, he finds himself drawn back into the harsh underworld of the Southwest and the stakes are higher than ever.
Gil must decide whether or not to embrace the threats to his life and those he cares for. More life and death battles, kidnappings, and the dangerous beauty of the Southwest await Gil in this thrilling conclusion to the series that began with Sunset and its sequel, Sundown.
Award-winning author of FIRST and NEXT TIME along with the Desert Sun series, which includes SUNSET, SUNDOWN, and SUNBURST.
NEXT TIME is the winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award for Fiction, 1st Place in the 8th Annual PenCraft Book Awards for Romance-Fantasy/Sci-Fi, and highlighted as a Must-Read Book for 2024 by Independent Book Review: "Of the many time-travel novels I've read, this is undeniably among my favorites."
FIRST is the Winner of the 18th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 1st Place in the 8th Annual PenCraft Book Awards for Science Fiction, as well as winner of the Reader Views Literary Award Silver Medal for Best Science Fiction Book of 2023: "The novel that’s going to be a break-out hit this year...a mind-blowing, perception-altering, unputdownable book...truly a novel not to be missed."