Swep Culhane

As WWII nears its searing climax, Navy fighter pilot Swep Culhane returns to his home in Utah on medical furlough. His homecoming defeats expectations—he loses his wife, his ranch, and a year of his life thanks to draft dodger Hayden Prendregast. But Prendregast is a small potato in a much larger stew of wartime black marketeering and ration-stamp counterfeiting that extends far beyond the confines of Utah. Swep has to sort out who is friend and who is foe. The one person—other than Dove Cordier—that he can count on is a local sheriff—or can he?