Duty to Protect

Dedicated K-9 officers race against time

Desert Rescue by Lisa Phillips

Rescuing a kidnapped child is part of the job for search-and-rescue K-9 handler Patrick Sanders—but this time it’s his son. Now Patrick and his furry partner must work with his high school love, Jennie Wilcox, to shield the little boy he just learned about. But with someone targeting them, will Patrick and Jennie survive to face their painful past and become a family?

Trailing a Killer by Carol J. Post

In a hurricane’s aftermath, Detective Erin Jeffries is stunned when she and her search-and-rescue K-9 uncover a collapsed building’s only survivor—her long-ago ex, Cody Elbourne. And it’s quickly clear that the disaster was no accident. Now only Cody can identify the man who set the explosives that killed his grandfather…and Erin must stop the killer dead set on silencing him.

Previously published as Desert Rescue and Trailing a Killer