Hot Enough to Kill

The mayor's dead, your mother's in jail, and you'd rather be anywhere but Kickapoo, Texas. Welcome to Jolene Jackson's world.It's bad enough that her 72-year-old mother's boyfriend got himself murdered, and even worse that she had to pluck her mother from the country jail because of it. But just as sure as the mesquites have thorns, things are going to get worse. A lot worse.