Tensleep

Stuck on an oil-drilling rig in the Wyoming badlands with a bunch of roughnecks is a tough place for a woman. But feisty, sharp-edged Emily "Em" Hansen, working as a mudlogger, calls this patch of Tensleep Sandstone home. She is about to call it deadly.

First the rig's geologist has a fatal accident. Then a young well-worker is killed out in the wilds. The investigation is moving slower than sludge, and Em wonders if something blacker than oil is being covered up. Soon she is mining for gossip and assaying the true colors of the oil field owner's sexy son, the greasy company supervisor, and the replacement geologist, a six-foot-tall Ivy League debutante. Now smart, sassy Em is finding friends among the macho men of crude oil--and a murderous equal-opportunity enemy....