Rhys doesn't expect a trip to Cottage Grove, Oregon, to start with a house shot up with bullets. If it had stopped there, it would have been manageable—a drive-by shooting that the cops chase down. But nothing is easy in Rhys's world. And this case goes to hell right from the beginning ...

Taylor, an army vet herself, struggles to regain a normal life, after she was injured by friendly fire in Iraq. Taking on a War Dog appeals to Taylor, a connection that she relates to, but she first must pass an interview, before she can keep Tallahassee. An interview with someone with a prosthetic just like Taylor's. Only he is far more capable than she is.

Still that lack of self-confidence is the least of Taylor's worries, as things go from bad to worse, and she realizes these attacks were very personal—and very close to home ...