Adam Cole is out of work and out of prospects when he arrives in the isolated valley town of Yakima, Washington, a sweltering backwater with a quick-trigger reputation.He has a job offer there. But the town and the climate are not his cuppa. And yet his West Coast newspaper has folded, and there isn't much of a market for a veteran scrivener who's been around the block a few times, and has the scars to prove it.So he reluctantly signs on with the...