Wrong Feet

A hydrologist dies on a trail outside Moab. Hiking accident. Case closed.
Except her boots were on the wrong feet.
Lane Lamore notices what no one else did. Insurance investigator, science journalist, and a woman who reads rooms the way she reads coroner's reports - completely, without sentiment - Lane pulls one thread and watches it unravel forty years of falsified water court filings, corrupted surveyors, and buried objections across four states.
The Colorado River is dying slowly. Someone has spent four decades positioning himself to decide who survives it. Not when. Who. In what order. And for how much.
Ryker Stone is Boulder's most celebrated conservationist. He is also the most dangerous man Lane has ever come across - self-made, brilliant, and entirely incapable of being seen for what he actually is. He has a plan for her. Several, in fact.
She sees him coming.
The Wrong Feet is a Colorado-set thriller about water, power, and the kind of fraud that survives by being too large to look at directly - and about the woman who looks anyway.