Twenty-one days. One cabin. A truth that could get them both killed before she ever takes the stand.
US Marshal Jacob Sandlin has guarded forty witnesses and lost none of them. Twenty-one days in a cabin at the end of a frozen Iron Range road should be just another detail — keep the woman alive until the hearing, let his K-9 Trigger read the dark, feel nothing.
But Daniela Quiroz already knows his name.She reads the old injury in the way he latches a high window — the shoulder that never quite came back.And as the snow closes in — a cut wire, a camera in the pines, a sniper who set his shot weeks before they ever arrived — Jacob understands the leak hunting her runs straight through the man who trained him.
Neither of them will say it out loud: eleven years ago, in a doorway in Detroit, a terrified girl fired the shot that nearly killed him.He has carried the wound. She has carried the guilt.And the one confession that could finally close the door between them is the same one that could get them killed before she ever reaches the stand.
When the hunters come through the snow, surviving will take everything the two of them have. Staying will take more.
Hunted is a clean, closed-door romantic suspense — a snowbound second-chance slow burn, a loyal K-9, and a hero who waits at the door instead of breaking it down. North Star K-9 Unit, Book 5. Every book is a complete story with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
