When an expensive necklace is stolen from a renowned jewelry artist at Rock Harbor's fall festival, Emily is accused of the crime. It looks like she'll never get her puppy and be able to join the Rock Harbor Search and Rescue team, so Emily sets out to find the real culprit.

"In the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Alex Kava, Ryder Creed, his K-9 search-and-rescue dogs, and FBI agent Maggie O'Dell find themselves at the center of a dire and mysterious case. In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story hotel room; along the Missouri river, a hunter and his son stumble upon a lake whose surface is littered with snow geese, all of them dead; and in southern Alabama, Ryder Creed...

Racing to North Carolina with his best search-and-rescue dog in the aftermath of a devastating mudslide, Ryder Creed is rescued from a second slide only to uncover evidence of a possible serial killer.

"During a training exercise, Creed's scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave. The body was never meant to be found, hidden deep in an isolated part of Florida's Blackwater River State Forest. The remote area has no easy access in or out. The killer obviously hoped his secret would be scattered and swallowed up by the forces of nature. When Creed's dogs continue to find more remains, investigators quickly realize they're...