K.V. McMillan creates a future world and character, in Cedwynne McKenzie, as diverse and interesting as those of Rachel Morgan, Kitty Norville and Anita Blake with a little of Stephanie Plum thrown in. The year is 2248- 61 years have passed since the end of the Bio-War and 56 years since the United States was reformed. The Fall and Bio-War engulfed the world in almost 150 years of death, destruction and decay. As the world emerges out of its century long nightmare, law and order again become the normalcy of life, especially in the new United States. U.S. Deputy Marshal Cedwynne McKenzie thought the hardest parts of her life were Wednesdays and ducking bullets. Orphaned young, all she had ever known was being self-sufficient and on her own. Her short life had not prepared her for the realities that actually existed in a world the history books had failed to mention. Armed with her knowledge of the law, an internal moral compass and her side arm; she tries to make sense of herself and the new world around her while trying to keep from getting killed... or worse.