The Sheriff of Cedar Hollow

She just took the badge. Now she has less than a day to save a girl's life.Mara Doyle came to Cedar Hollow to disappear - a burned-out Denver detective looking for a small mountain town quiet enough to outrun the two seconds that got her partner killed. Three weeks into her first term as sheriff, a radio call before dawn ends that hope for good: sixteen-year-old Josie Calder never made it home from her closing shift at the diner, and the evidence on Mill Creek Road says she didn't run away. She was taken.There's no cold case to crack here - just a clock that won't stop, a town full of people who'd rather not look too closely at their own, and a kidnapping tangled up with a debt, a drug pipeline running through the resort corridor, and a predecessor's decades of convenient silence. Every hour Mara spends chasing the wrong lead is an hour she can't get back. And with a deadline ticking toward midnight and a girl's scratched, desperate note as the only real clue, one wrong turn could cost everything.What's inside:¿ A single, breathless 24-hour timeline - no flashbacks, no slow burn, just a countdown that never lets up¿ A new sheriff proving herself in real time, case-cracking instincts collide with the guilt she can't outrun¿ A tightly wound mountain-town mystery: a missing uncle, a corrupt legacy, and a trafficking operation hiding behind a landscaping company¿ Short, punchy chapters built for one-more-page reading, each one closing on a fresh gut-punch¿ A complete, satisfying ending - no cliffhanger, no sequel requiredPerfect for readers who love Fast-paced police procedurals, small-town thrillers with real stakes, and female-led investigations where the countdown clock is the real villain. If you tore through books by authors known for high-tension procedurals and wished the pace never let up, Mara Doyle's first case was built for you.This novel also makes a great gift for the thriller reader in your life who says they'll "just read one chapter before bed" and means it every single time.