Neely Jones

"When Neely Jones, the only African American and female member of the Taft County Police Department, finds someone has added her name as a write-in candidate on the ballot for the position of sheriff, she doesn't expect to actually get elected. In fact, it's the last thing she wants. Her prejudiced coworkers already resent her. She and her boyfriend, a gentle Japanese marine biologist named Jan Koto, regularly experience racial harassment from a local group of skinheads. These actions, once reported, go largely ignored by the present bigoted sheriff, Giff Wills, who doesn't hide his purely…