Badlands

BadlandsGrimstad, North Dakota –

a place people used to be from, but were never headed to – has struck

oil. As pipelines snake across the prairie, oil flows out and men and

money flow in. And with them, comes crime. North Dakota’s new oil

capital has a serious law and order problem and newly qualified

detective Cassie Dewell has just been assigned as its deputy sheriff.Twelve-year-old

Kyle Westergaard is one of Grimstad's paperboys. Even though Kyle has

been written off as the “slow” kid, he has dreams deeper than anyone can

imagine – he wants to get out of town, take care of his alcoholic

mother, and give them a better life. While delivering newspapers, he

witnesses a car accident and now has money and a lot of white powder in

his possession.With the temperature dropping to 30 below and a

gang war heating up, Cassie fears she might be in over her head but the

key to it all will come in the most unlikely form: an undersized boy on a

bike who keeps showing up where he doesn’t belong.