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

bars as if freedom were another trap with better lighting. Then he stepped down. His injured leg buckled, and Grant caught him before he hit the snow.

The dog should have fought. Most hurt animals would have. Instead, he went rigid in Grant’s arms, enduring rescue with the same grim restraint he had used to endure the cage. Grant stripped off his outer continue reading …