Prequel novella.
Time is critical when ten-year-old, Hailey Donovan goes missing.
FBI Special Agent Kendra Dean and her K9 partner, Baxter, are assigned to the case. The girls estranged parents and her mothers sketchy boyfriend each have motives for her disappearance and are all prime suspects.
Saddled with a burned-out detective whod rather retire than investigate, Kendra and Baxter race to find Hailey before the girls time runs out. The small trail they find goes cold and the clock is ticking.
Will Kendra and Baxter find a way to thwart evil and rescue innocence?