"The name Easy Rawlins stirs excitement in the hearts of readers and fear in the hearts of his foes. His success has bought him a thriving detective agency, with its first female detective; a remote home, shared with children and pets and lovers, high atop the hills overlooking gritty Los Angeles; and more trouble, more problems, and more threat to those whom he loves. In other words, he's still beset on all sides. A number of below-the-law powerbrokers plead with Easy to locate a mysterious, dangerous woman-Lutisha James, though she's gone by another name that Easy will immediately recognize. 1970s Los Angeles is a transient city of delicate, violent balances, and Lutisha has upended that. She also has a secret that will upend Easy's own life, painfully closer to home. In that home, Easy now has a true love, Amethystine Stoller, someone he worries will expose them both to further threat, a threat which may've already come for his grown son, Jesus, currently being pursued by a shadowy Federal law enforcement operation seeking to control the plentiful flow of drugs into California. Gray Dawn finds Easy Rawlins determined yet vulnerable, aware of the world as he knows it shifting beneath his feet"-- Provided by publisher.