Sick Puppy

Junker and former alt-country rocker Maggie Killian tucks tail back to Texas with Louise, the mutt her bull-riding ex foisted on her in Wyoming after he gave another woman his heart. Maggie runs straight to Gary Fuller - her long time best friend-with-benefits and the biggest Texas country music star since George Strait - but arrives too late to save him from dying in a fire. She just wants to lick her wounds in her own bed with nothing save a bottle for comfort, but Maggie's short term renter refuses to budge from her home. Soon her small town sanctuary is overrun with Nashville bigwigs, Gary's trailer park family, and grief-crazed fans feeding the fires of media speculation about the bodies in her wake.

With Maggie barely functional enough to fight back and law enforcement hell-bent on scapegoating her, she begins to suspect Gary's death wasn't an isolated incident. To save her livelihood and sanity, she's gotta woman-up before everything and everyone she loves goes up in flames, too.