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

frame caught the pale man smoking beside the cage before snow obscured the lens.

Rachel watched that one twice.

“Stonecross uses subcontractors,” she said. “Subcontractors use locals. Locals use silence. That’s the model.”

“Can you break it?” Grant asked.

She looked at him. “Not alone.”

So Ray called a town meeting.

Tamarack’s Grange Hall filled before the continue reading …