2nd Edition Sheriff Sam Daly, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and his husband, Michael Bellomo, have made a life for themselves in sparsely populated Pine County, in the Colorado mountains. Sam oversees the small sheriff’s department, and Michael sells his paintings and tourist items out of his shop, Needful Things. From the beginning, Sam has known Michael possessed gifts: the ability to see and hear things Sam cannot. When a report of a body in a massive snow-filled depression up a mountainside sends Sam and his deputy, Digger, to investigate, Sam struggles to reconcile the existence of skinwalkers in Pine County with the world he’s familiar with. Michael, though, deals with this reality through his art, and through the mysticism he’s been gifted. Sam’s effort to discover what is happening causes him to examine his life with Michael from the time they first met. The inevitable conclusion might be that he’ll never understand the mysteries of the mountains, but for the sake of Michael and their love, he’ll have to embrace them. First Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, 2015.

Sam Daly is the sheriff of Pine County, Colorado. His husband, Michael Bellomo, owns Needful Things, the souvenir shop on Main Street in Gunderson Junction. Michael also sells his original paintings there, some of which foretell events to come. An idyllic mountain setting, except for Pine County's nature—skinwalkers, witches, magic, and messages carried on the whispers of old winds between the living and the dead. These five days in Pine County expose it for what it is, but what happens in Pine County stays in Pine County.