Yes, I am a 62 year old male who has gotten hooked on Love Inspired Suspense. What can I say? I love good suspense. And this novel is top notch suspense. It involves a park ranger and her rescue dog searching for a hiker's wounded brother on a mountain during a terrible storm. When they get to where the brother was supposed to be, there was no brother. But there were others shooting at the ranger and hiker. So between wild men, a wild storm, and a wildcat...
This is the last of a three part K-9 Search + Rescue series. No, let me call it a collection. The three installments were written by different authors. But unlike other Love Inspired Suspense multi-author series (for example, the True Blue K-9 Unit series), this group only shares that it includes rescue dogs. There are no common characters, no continuing story; in fact, the settings differ from each other. So if you want to read this first, go for it.
While all three are good stories, Mountain Survival is definitely my favorite of the three. You grow to care for Park Ranger Autumn Mercer and hiking lawyer Derek Peterson and of course Sherlock (isn't the dog on the cover absolutely beautiful?), as you also learn to detest the gunrunner who is hunting them. As for the wildcat...
I also recommend the other two. The series starts with a bang in the New Mexico desert with Lisa Phillip's Desert Rescue, featuring an Airedale Terrier as the rescue dog. And if you're panting either due to the Southwest heat, the romance, or the non-stop action, you might want to take a dip in the Florida coast... well, maybe not during a hurricane which the hero's of Trailing A Killer by Carol Post deal with.
By the way, I need to correct this. As of next month, this "series" will expand to four parts, and probably at least two more after that. Love Inspired Suspense usually has a nine part K-9 series from April (technically 8 parts, with a Christmas 2-novella book out in December, and the first three months of the year they have a looser three part collection with a theme in common of stand-alone stories with no common characters.
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