A take-off novel from the author's first work, Relentless, The Dawn Stealer finds paleontologist Laura Crisler doing field work near the abandoned town of Coleman, Arizona. An epic discovery entangles her in an international web of danger and a search in which she must succeed no matter the cost. Aided by Sheriff Jim Langdon, Laura finds herself the avowed enemy of an unscrupulous colleague and his psychotic partner, who align themselves with the underworld of crime to exploit her discovery and eliminate her and Langdon in the process.