Blood Feather

A stolen eaglet. A missing ranch hand. And a family with too much to lose.

When a golden eagle chick turns up at a rescue north of Los Angeles, the quiet cowboy who dropped it off doesn't leave his name. Three days later, nobody has seen him, his gear is still under his bunk, and private investigator Nikki Drake is the only one looking.

The trail runs to Aldrich Ranch. A cattle outfit in hard country, with eagle nests on its cliffs and a bank balance that stopped bleeding right when it should have gone under. Nikki and her German Shepherd, Gunner, are welcomed onto the place. Offered coffee, taken on a tour, and watched. Every mile.

Somebody out there is pulling wild eaglets off those cliffs and feeding them into a pipeline that ends on the other side of the world. Somebody who has already killed once. And when Nikki rides into the high country with the rancher's wife, they are far from help, on ground that's already hiding one body.

Gunner will find him. But Nikki has to make sure no one else disappears.

Mysteries with bite. Suspense with heart.

Each Nikki Drake novel is a complete case. Read in any order.