Sarah Miller has trigger discipline. At forty-two, the divorced Ozark sharpshooter has rebuilt her life around the things she can control: her aim, her faith, her community, and the unshakable belief that she knows exactly who she is. Then she meets Julian Vane. He's a Manhattan architect. Liberal. Refined. Everything her world taught her to despise. But when he kisses her calloused knuckles in a hotel bar and asks a question nobody in Missouri has ever asked her, Sarah discovers that the most dangerous weapon she owns isn't the SIG Sauer in her holster. It's the wanting she's buried for twenty years. What begins as a reckless physical affair becomes something far more perilous: an awakening. As Julian unravels her body, he unravels her certainties. And as Sarah's double life pulls her between dusty Ozark rallies and rain-slicked Manhattan nights, she discovers that her community's darkest secrets run deeper than politics, and the men who once called her their queen are now hunting a traitor. The Weight of Lead is a searing novel of desire, identity, and the terrifying freedom of thinking for yourself. For readers of Fifty Shades and Those Who Lie, this is erotic fiction with teeth.