Book excerpt: K-9 search and rescue handler Jamie Flint and her team¿both human and canine¿are called in when a group vanishes during a dogsledding expedition for battered women in the Mahoosuc Mountains of Maine. When it¿s learned that a rogue gunman was involved in the disappearance, authorities look to the abusive partners of the women now lost for answers. Meanwhile, a voice from Jamie¿s past begins to haunt her, echoing the words of the shooter now in pursuit of a target Jamie alone can save. With her K-9 partners Phantom and Casper at her side, Jamie must confront the demons of her own past as her team fights the elements and the clock in order to find the missing women and bring them home.