Winter: Cricket and Grey

Cricket Winters is a second generation apothecary in the rural Willamette Valley. American culture has just kind of... wound down. Times are hard, and most people don't have much.

Her parents have both died, and burying her father means actually digging the grave. At the grave side she meet Grey, the mysterious man whom her father charged with her safekeeping.

She knocks down an FBI agent, gets over an old love, makes a deal with a gangster, and becomes the target of a very scary killer.