Deputy Sheriffs Robely Danner and Frank “Frack” Telusky of the small farming village of Abundance, Wisconsin, investigate the disappearance of popular young bullrider, Coby Dillon. His beautiful teenage girlfriend, Brielle Broussard, is convinced foul play is involved. For three years Coby and calf roper Dyce Dean Jackson partnered on the rodeo circuit, but when Coby chooses life with Brielle over rodeo, could Dyce’s feelings of betrayal have gotten out of hand? While working the case of a vicious assault on her mother—Gladys of Gladys’s Bar fame—Robely receives a call from medical examiner Paula Dennison, asking her to locate the source of lead-contaminated moonshine that has already put three men on a cold slab in the morgue. The local moonshine is called French Moonlight, a clue that leads Robely deep into the reclusive and dangerous community of Frenchman Wood where Brielle lives with her large extended family. It is there Robely finds initials carved into an ancient rock that could lead her to the father whose name she has yet to discover.