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Shannon’s Website is shannon-baker.com.
Beginning in October 2026, her new site is shannonbaker-author.com Kate Fox thought she’d traded danger on the Nebraska plains for a quieter life—and a real chance with Baxter. But when he vanishes in the Costa Rican jungle—and her niece Carly is arrested while trying to free trafficked wildlife—Kate is pulled thousands of miles from home and straight into a nightmare. An ex-sheriff used to chasing cattle thieves, Kate’s now facing something far a wildlife smuggling ring trading jaguars, sloths, and venomous snakes for millions. In a desperate bid to save Carly, she goes undercover in the traffickers’ world—where one wrong word could get her killed, and the only law is survival.
But somewhere in the jungle, Baxter is still out there. And the deeper Kate goes undercover, the more she realizes saving the people she loves may cost her the one thing she can’t get back—her life.
BIO
Shannon Baker writes mysteries about strong women in dangerous situations. Her books are set in the iconic landscapes of the American West, from the Colorado Rockies to the Nebraska prairies, to the deserts of southern Arizona. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1, and too few years living on Colorado’s front range. Her dark suspense, The Desert Behind Me, is a 2019 Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. Seconds before quitting writing forever and taking up competitive drinking, Shannon was voted Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s 2014 Writer of the Year and, buoyed with that confidence, continued to write, earning another RMFW Writer of the Year nod in 2017-18. Shannon makes her home in Tucson where she enjoys cocktails by the pool, breathtaking sunsets, a crazy Weimaraner, and killing people (in the pages of her books). A lover of the outdoors, she can be found backpacking in the Rockies, traipsing to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, skiing mountains and plains, kayaking lakes, river running, hiking, cycling, and scuba diving whenever she gets the chance. Arizona sunsets notwithstanding, Baker is, and always will be, a Nebraska Husker, heartbreaking as the last two decades have been. Go Big Red
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