Part dirty-shirt cowgirl, part Apache, and part-time private eye, Arizona rancher Trade Ellis doesn't have time to chase down bad boys like Eddy Gallegos.  And besides, finding the runaway teen in the middle of a blistering Tucson summer swarming with kids isn't going to be easy.  Bit Trade's doing it anyway.  She's doing it for Eddy's grandmother - a friend of a friend - and because she has this thing about justice.  She believes in it.

At first Trade figures Eddy is just a juvenile delinquent who broke out of a detention center with a couple of his compadres.
But when her questions get answers the fragrance of cow pies, and one of his homeboys, a congressman's son, shows up dead, she realizes the barrio teen is actually running for his life.  Hot on his tail are a team of crooked cops, a suspicious homeless kid on a bike, and maybe an X-rated movie producer.  For a yet-to-be-discovered reason, a dangerous race is on, leading Trade down a deadly path of violence and scandal.  And from the looks of things, if the good guys finish last, they finish dead...