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Nia Fontaine has worked the overnight desk at the Fresno forecast office for eleven years. She writes down what the instrument says, and what the instrument said at ten to four on the sixteenth of February was twenty seven degrees in an almond block three days into bloom, seven degrees colder than every station around it.

Fourteen minutes after she filed it, a phone that does not ring rang, and a man she had never heard of asked whether the number was going to stay the number.

Two hundred and fourteen million dollars hang off that keystroke. So does Deuce Ramsey, the lender’s man who met her on an orchard road nineteen days earlier and bought her a navy satin slip in exactly her size without ever asking for it. So does her sister, who works at the lender. So does Sol Abernathy, the crop adjuster whose whole case is that the trees do not agree with her number, and whom she cannot touch without destroying the only thing that can clear her.

By June there is a man in the ground outside Caruthers, a piece of paper with her dress size on it, and a woman who has spent her whole life only being real between midnight and six, standing up in a lit room on a weekday to say who she is before anyone can say it for her.

Desire. Deception. Betrayal. Consequences. A Books By Barron erotic thriller.