Seek And Find. Dana Mentink
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KILLER HEADLINE
Reporter Madison Coles wants to write an exposé on the crime spree rocking Desert Valley, Arizona—but the small town’s residents and police are tight-lipped. Even when Madison herself is attacked, the only help she can get is protection from rookie K-9 officer James Harrison and his trusty bloodhound. Suspicious of the reporter’s motives, the handsome cop keeps her at arm’s length. But the more Madison’s life is threatened, the more focused she is on finding the truth—and the closer she gets to James. Can he help her find the story without them both ending up in the obituary pages?
Rookie K-9 Unit: These lawmen solve the toughest cases with the help of their brave canine partners
“Help me,” Madison managed to whisper to the figure backlit from the sun.
Dust stung her eyes, grit caking her mouth. She did not realize it was James who had entered until his face appeared in the gap under the desk.
“Madison?” He wore an expression of unadulterated surprise and relief. “Thank You, God,” he said.
“I was sitting here saying the same thing,” she replied, crawling out from under the desk. The trailer had collapsed. Someone had made it collapse. Her stomach was flip-flopping madly at the sight of him.
“Are you hurt?” he asked.
She managed a shake of her head before he clutched her to him for just a moment, held tightly against his wide chest, feeling the mad thundering of his heart.
“You’re really okay, then?” he repeated.
“I’m okay.”
But someone didn’t want her to be.
ROOKIE K-9 UNIT:
These lawmen solve the toughest cases
with the help of their brave canine partners
Protect and Serve—Terri Reed, April 2016
Truth and Consequences—Lenora Worth, May 2016
Seek and Find—Dana Mentink, June 2016
Honor and Defend—Lynette Eason, July 2016
Secrets and Lies—Shirlee McCoy, August 2016
Search and Rescue—Valerie Hansen, September 2016
DANA MENTINK is an award-winning author of Christian fiction. Her novel Betrayal in the Badlands won a 2010 RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Award, and she was pleased to win the 2013 Carol Award for Lost Legacy. She has authored more than a dozen Love Inspired Suspense novels. Dana loves feedback from her readers. Contact her via her website at danamentink.com.
Seek and Find
Dana Mentink
Remember ye not the former things,
neither consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;
shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
—Isaiah 43:18–19
To those faithful K-9 officers and their police handlers, thank you for your dedication and service.
Contents
Murder. The word rattled through Madison’s mind along with the outrage. She was driving fast—too fast. Rocks struck the fenders with angry thunks. When the twenty-seven-year-old reporter made the dusty turn that was to take her the final five miles into the hole-in-the-wall town of Desert Valley in northwestern Arizona, her irritation contributed to her lead foot