Juniper Ridge

A Cold County Justice Novel

A child vanishes, and the silence that follows feels deliberate.

In Red Willow County, former lawman and private investigator Cole Maddox knows the land the way some men know scripture. He knows its back roads, its forgotten places, and the way winter can erase more than tracks. He also knows what it is to live with a question that never loosens its grip.

When a new case pulls him toward a burned-out site called Juniper Ridge, the answers come slowly, and not without cost. People hesitate. Records resist. The past begins to surface in ways that feel uncomfortably personal, as if the land itself is remembering something no one wants spoken aloud.

What should be a search for one missing child starts to feel like the edge of something far older and far more carefully buried.

And Cole is running out of time to decide how much of the truth he is willing to uncover.

Juniper Ridge is an atmospheric mystery in modern western noir, where rugged country, quiet loyalties, and unresolved loss converge, and where some questions, once asked, refuse to be put back into the dark.

In the cold, the past does not stay buried.

It waits.