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A Great and Terrible Darkness

A Great and Terrible Darkness

Series: K-9 Search and Rescue, Book 6

Jessica Cooper is consulting with the police on the case of a missing college student when tragedy strikes. The devastating loss throws Nate into a paroxysm of grief. It’s not clear he’ll ever recover. As he tries to hike out his despair on the Appalachian Trail, Jess is terrified for him. Jess’s searches take her into the same mountains Nate is hiking. Circumstances collide, paths cross, and in the end, it’s Jess who’s in a fight for her life.

I Call Her Brave

I Call Her Brave

Series: K-9 Search and Rescue, Book 7

Releases June 1st

Desi Catlett’s six-year-old son went missing ten years ago. Is Jayden alive? Dead? Could forensic genealogy help find him? With baby in tow and her faithful SAR dog, Luke, by her side, Private Investigator Jess Cooper seeks answers.

Meanwhile, Jess’s husband, FBI Special Agent Scott Cooper, investigates a looming threat to the nation. His troubled daughter. Amanda finishes college early. Scott sets her up at a friend’s house on Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Can the slower pace and natural beauty of this beach town calm Amanda’s troubled soul?

Three women, Desi, Jess, and Amanda, each facing daunting challenges. One worried dad. And everyone’s searching for hope.

Jessica Cooper, private investigator, search-and-rescue volunteer, wife, mom, and dog handler investigates the ex-wife of a lawyer, Brett Hudgins. He thinks she’s abusing their children and he wants full custody. Jess thinks maybe Brett’s just controlling. But sure enough, something’s fishy in Brittany’s life. Her behavior in court reveals a deeply unstable personality. Soon Brett has what he wants, and Jess marks the case closed.

Just when she thinks the whole mess is behind her, Jess finds out Brett is trying to “save” his ex-wife. Then someone finds a tracker on Jess's car. Who could be tracking her? The stakes grow higher when Brett is found murdered. Early one morning, Jess is snatched away from her home, her family, her friends, and her dog.

Alone, standing on the banks of the Potomac River in the company of brutal men, Jess is about to find out if the faith she believes in the daytime will hold fast at night.

All My Bones Shook, the 8th book in the K-9 Search and Rescue Series, can be read as a standalone.

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The book is out. Now what?

I AM SITTING on my back porch. It’s a chilly, breezy day with rain showers threatening. The app, Merlin, is open on my iPhone advising me that the sounds I’m hearing are those of Carolina chickadees, Northern cardinals, a red-eyed vireo, and … what? An orchard oriole? That would be a lifer, if true. A mug of hot tea sits beside me. The sentiment on the mug, attributed to Jane Austen, reads, I declare after all there’s no enjoyment like reading. Unless it’s writing, I silently respond. I believe she’d agree. Two hundred fifty years ago, in Austen’s time, women did not…