The Trouble with Believing

In Porterville, everybody has their point of view. Some are willing to kill for them.

Detective Sergeant Magnum Schultz has spent twenty years enforcing the Rule of Law in her small Eastern Washington city. Now, with her twenty-one-year-old daughter, Jennifer, riding shotgun as a reserve officer, she's discovering that keeping the peace may be harder than catching criminals.

A bitter political feud between two brothers ends in murder. A man is shot dead in a crowded tavern, yet somehow nobody can identify the shooter—or explain why he was assaulted.

Then a police-involved shooting ignites a racial firestorm. Protesters take to the streets, white nationalists descend on Porterville, and a burning cross appears on a Black family's lawn. Who's to blame?

As fear and anger divide the town, Magnum finds herself confronting more than violent criminals. She's forced to question beliefs shaped by two decades behind the badge—and consider what those beliefs might mean for the daughter now following in her footsteps.

In a town where everyone is choosing sides, can Magnum find the truth before more opinions turn deadly?