Grant is a professional and very focused on his job. Overall, the attraction is there but it's not overbearing. There is actually a lot of ogling although neither want to admit it. And Ava's noticed Grant is easy on the eyes. Then Ava realizes there were more missing girls and things start looking more ominous than a person just getting lost.ĭeputy sheriff Grant Wycoff doesn't like it when Ava sticks her nose in this old missing person's case but that feeling is overshadowed by how he likes the jeweled pockets on her designer jeans (or what's under those jeweled pockets, to be more exact). She knows a girl went missing two years ago, she'd been camping and hiking in the area and the camp looks like it could have been hers. On a search for a missing little boy, Ave notices an old camp site. Hank and Ava volunteer when a dog and handler are needed for search and rescue missions. She lives in a little house on her friend's property and enjoys her more low key life as a small town lawyer. So when a friend and colleague had to move back to Cuervo, TX, near Big Bend, eventually Ava followed her. And her mostly estranged dad had died not long ago, leaving her his SAR dog, Hank, and his love of Search and Rescue. With time running out, Ava and Grant must work against the brutal heat from both the Texas sun and their own electric chemistry to solve the case.Īva Burch had been a big city corporate lawyer but she wanted to get away from the big city grind.
As they look into the campsite further, another woman disappears under odd circumstances.
But when she tells him of her findings on the trail, he sees there's more to her than meets the eye.Īva's discovery reminds Grant of the unsolved case of a young woman who went missing two years ago. When she and her dog, Huck, discover an abandoned campsite on a volunteer search-and-rescue mission, she's perplexed, but she carefully photographs it all the same.Īll Grant Wycoff can see when he looks at Ava is a city slicker-with her designer jeans and shiny car-who has no business on a serious team made of seasoned outdoorsmen and retired cops. She grew up with her father, who raised search-and-rescue dogs, in rural Texas and has moved to the small town of Cuervo to spend time in the dry, rugged wilderness near Big Bend National Park. When a cold case in Texas leads to a sinister string of disappearances, a newcomer to the small town helps a detective piece together the clues in this new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.Ĭorporate lawyer Ava Burch has had enough of the big city and the daily grind.
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