Temper’s Mistake: A Deputy Temper Novel (The Deputy Temper Series Book 2)

Deputy Leia Temper is back with another twisted and torturous case set in the rural Colorado Rockies.

A man is beaten to death outside his cabin near Salida, Colorado. The scene is brutal but contained—one victim, one weapon, no clear motive. By the next night, Temper is already following a lead. She knows she’s hunting a brutal killer.

The trail leads to Matt Butcher—a conditioned ex-soldier from a secretive PTSD facility near Fort Carson.

But she’s too late.

Now there’s a second body—a woman, also savaged. Butcher is arrested at the scene, but there’s a problem: he’s catatonic, unresponsive, and unable to explain anything.

And there’s another problem: Temper has no idea that Butcher was once someone else. She has stumbled into the margins of a covert military program that turns broken soldiers into instruments of assassination. It’s a program that, by its very nature, leaves no loose ends.

What Temper does know is how to solve a murder. Only this case refuses to behave like any she’s seen before. One moment it appears solved, even if the motive is unclear. The next, the obvious suspect—Butcher—is dead.

The truth is still out there, larger than she can grasp, and more dangerous than she can imagine. The closer she gets, the more she puts herself in their sights.

But Temper’s mistake isn’t missing the bigger picture—it’s suspecting the one man who can bring it to her.