A lonely trucker almost passed the starving dog in the storm-then his headlights caught what the animal was hiding under its body…

the gates around him. The card on the kennel said the dog’s name was Mason. He had been picked up near a closed steel mill, underweight, patient, watchful.

The dog looked at Luke the way Ranger had looked at Hank in the rain.

Luke signed the papers and renamed him Ranger.

It was not the same dog. Luke was a doctor; he did not believe in that kind of magic.continue reading …