He thought he was checking out illegal logging in the Idaho mountains-until he found a German Shepherd locked in a frozen cage, staring at him like it had been waiting for exactly one person

By evening, Grant sat in the back room of the sheriff’s department while a woman named Rachel Kline spread evidence across a conference table with the calm of someone assembling a storm.

Rachel worked for the state, but she had the kind of face that made jurisdiction feel less important than patience. Late forties, hair streaked with gray, eyes sharp continue reading …