by Dani Pettrey
Part of Alaskan Courage
First published 2015
Kirra Jacobs and Reef McKenna have never gotten along. She followed the rules; he broke them. Now they work side by side on Yancey's search-and-rescue canine unit, and the old friction is slowly giving way to something neither expected. Then word comes in from the Iditarod: Kirra's uncle Frank, a musher in the race, has gone missing. They find him, but what he tells them is worse than a simple disappearance. Frank's daughter has been taken. The kidnapper wants Frank to use his skills as a mechanical engineer to carry out a plan with catastrophic reach, and if he refuses, his daughter dies. Kirra and Reef push into dangerous territory, working alongside the McKenna family to track a villain who is holding one young woman's life hostage while moving toward a disaster that could devastate Alaska. The stakes keep climbing, and so does the pull between two people who spent years convinced they had nothing in common.
Genres: adventure, suspense, adult, adult-fiction, mystery-thriller, contemporary-romance
Vibes: action-packed, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful, tension-filled
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, found-family
Setting: Alaska, Yancey
Period: contemporary
325 pages · Paperback · Bethany House Publishers
Content warnings: kidnapping, violence