Dead Engine, Live Wire

Caleb Wren spends his mornings signing seizure paperwork and hauling dead engines across the flat plains west of Amarillo, but one routine auction run changes everything. Three vehicles pulled from a Lubbock impound lot come attached to a debt that does not belong to him, and the gray sedan that shouldn't have been on the lot begins following him home. What starts as a clerical nightmare quickly escalates into surveillance, sabotage, and violence, pulling in his sister Marisa, his old partner Dale Krenzer, and a sharp-eyed deputy named Rachel Vance who knows more than she is saying. As Harlan Boyd's crew of contractors tightens the noose and federal operatives quietly build a task force case, Caleb discovers that the truck on his flatbed is wired into something far larger than a stolen vehicle ring. Every jump-start risks a live wire, every ally could be compromised, and the choice facing Caleb is simple and brutal: drive away from the people he loves, or gun the engine and let the chase burn down to whoever is left standing in the dust.