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Raine Stockton knows dogs, not kids. Nonetheless, she is supremely confident in
her ability to take care her fiancé’s ten year old daughter, Melanie, for a
week while he is out of town. After
all, how hard could it be?
But things get complicated when Raine and her golden
retriever, Cisco, rescue a dog who is locked in a hot car in a remote Smoky
Mountain park… and subsequently discover the owner of that car drowned in the
creek only a few dozen yards away. Was
it an accident, or was it murder?
Raine is certain that she recognizes the abandoned dog from
her puppy training class six years ago.
Mere months later, the dog, along with his three-year-old owner,
disappeared from the child’s bedroom during the night and were never seen
again. Now the dog is back, and Raine is
convinced his reappearance might hold the key to the truth about the missing
child. The problem is that no one
believes her.
While Raine tries to unravel the mystery of the abandoned
dog’s past—and a six-year-old missing child case—her ex-husband, criminal
investigator Buck Lawson, opens an investigation into the death of the man in
whose car the dog was found. He soon
finds himself involved in another cold case, one that leads him from an
apparent serial killer in Florida to a murder in his own hometown.
The one thing that ties the two cases together is the dog whose shadowy history opens the door to questions better left unasked, and whose answers may prove to be deadly. But when lives are in danger, it is up to Raine and Cisco to track down the truth, even though it means risking someone she loves.
