Virgin Jackson protects the last natural landscape on earth as a ranger, but her world flips upside down when there’s an impossible murder on the park, and now she’s saddled with a (mysterious and handsome) new partner for the case, as well as facing her own (literally) haunted past.

Virgin Jackson is the senior ranger in Birrimun Park – the world’s last natural landscape, overshadowed though it is by a sprawling coastal megacity. She maintains public safety and order in the park, but her bosses have brought out a hotshot cowboy to help her catch some drug runners who are affecting tourism. She senses the company is holding something back from her, and she’s not keen on working with an outsider like Nate Sixkiller. When an imaginary animal from her troubled teenage years reappears, Virgin takes it to mean one of two things: a breakdown (hers!) or a warning. When the dead bodies start piling up around her and Nate, she decides on the latter. Something terrible is about to happen in the park and Virgin and her new partner are standing in its path… File Under: Science Fiction [ Megacity Won | Last Chances | Imaginary Help | Reluctant Partners ]