False Shelter is the second book in The Nuevas Montañas Files, coming August 2027. The first two chapters are finished — and you can read them now, free.

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If you haven't read No Safe Harbor yet, the series starts there: a crime thriller built on my years working alongside emergency dispatch and law enforcement in southern New Mexico. The procedure is real. The town isn't. That's the fun of it.

"False Shelter — First Two Chapters"

by J. Dale Dillard