Bait The Devil by Winter Austin
Genre: Modern Western Thriller

In bounty hunting, clean jobs are a myth. Dot knows—she’s seen the blood.

Dot Ybarra doesn’t bluff. Fresh into her bounty hunting career, she’s already earning a reputation for results. But when a “routine” rogue bounty—taken as a favor to her lawyer cousin—turns lethal, she’s staring down a case with international reach, bodies in its wake, and the stench of power.

Her business partner, T.J. Roman, is hiding a secret. If Dot finds out … well, she can’t find out. It would end the effective partnership they’ve built. But the trail won’t wait. What should have been a clean pickup of a fellow military veteran spirals into a hunt through the shadows, where one wrong move could see them both buried in an unmarked grave.

To stop the predators at the center of a violent trafficking ring, they’ll have to go straight into its core—and make themselves the bait. Every step makes them vulnerable to each other as well.

The devil’s coming for them.

Dot plans to be the one still standing after he bites.

About Author

Winter Austin perpetually answers the question: “were you born in the winter?” with a flat “nope,” but believe her, there is a story behind her name.

A lifelong Mid-West gal with strong ties to the agriculture world, Winter grew up listening to the captivating stories told by relatives around a table or a campfire. As a published author, she learned her glass half-empty personality makes for a perfect suspense/thriller writer. Taking her ability to verbally spin a vivid and detailed story, Winter translated that into writing deadly romantic suspense, mysteries, and thrillers.

When she’s not slaving away at the computer, you can find Winter supporting her daughter in cattle shows, seeing her three sons off into the wide-wide world, loving on her fur babies, prodding her teacher husband, and nagging at her flock of hens to stay in the coop or the dogs will get them.

She is the author of multiple novels

My Thoughts

Bait the Devil by Winter Austin is about a badass training to be a fugitive recovery agent, which I think is a bounty hunter as well. Named Dot, a mountain woman born & raised in Payette National Forest, she is a badass that wouldn’t be caught ever in a skirt, even if it was military issued. She knows how to fly a plane & can take down a man twice her size. From her horse-wrangling skills to her ability to land a helicopter with precision while on one of their hunts. There’s not much that feisty & respected Dot can’t do. TJ, her partner, who relied pretty heavily on her instincts while on their bounty hunts, was one of her fellow soldiers in the military in these hunting expeditions. He also was, at many points in her life, a romantic partner. TJ was a recovering alcoholic who used alcohol to deal with his PTSD from his experiences in the military. They had a mission to find a guy named Cade Porter, which led them on a crazy wild goose chase where bodies with the same tattoo kept popping up. This was a good book; this Dot character seems pretty freaking amazing—there isn’t anything she cannot do. Joining them on this crazy mission to track down this horrible man is highly recommended!

Links to Bait The Devil

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