An exploding car... a bag with a live rattlesnake thrown her way... within a few minutes of getting into town... could it be somebody wants to kill patrol officer Jenna Morrow? Is this connected to an anonymous tip concerning a gun ring that Jenna and her K-9 partner Augie were sent to investigate? And is Clay Miller, the mysterious handsome stranger that rescued her, someone she should trust? (Considering this is published by Harlequin imprint Love Inspired Suspense, I guess we know the answer to the last question.)

Jessica Patch is the author of "Threat of Revenge," book 6 of Love Inspired Suspense's Dakota K-9 Unit series. You have a pair of very interesting charters with Jenna and Clay, and you have plenty of plot twists. 

Let's say you found this book when looking on-line, and you haven't read the previous 5 books in the series. Can you enjoy this story without feeling lost not knowing what happened previously or spoiling some of the earlier stories? Note - normally with these Love Inspired Suspense multi-author K-9 suspense stories, the answer is yes, but not this series. There is a major overarching story through the collection, and there is an unexpected plot twist that reading them out of order would spoil. 

My advice? Get and read the whole series (at the time of writing this, I just finished book 7). It is fun reading a series with different authors, and Jessica Patch is one I usually perk up with - if I made up a list of my favorite Love Inspired Suspense characters, most of the top ten would be found in Patch's stories, and Clay belongs in that group. In other words, I highly reommend this book and the rest of the series.