A Great and Terrible Darkness: K-9 Search and Rescue Book 6
About A Great and Terrible Darkness: K-9 Search and Rescue Book 6
She hunts killers for a living. Now one is hunting her. Former homicide detective and search-and-rescue volunteer Jessica Cooper agrees to consult on the disappearance of a college student near Harrisonburg, Virginia.
What begins as a missing persons case quickly reveals something far more sinister. One young woman vanishes. A second is abducted and narrowly escapes, and the man responsible is building a target list with Jessica's name at the top.
Meanwhile, Jessica’s mentor, Nathan Tanner, is MIA. His wife, Laura, was killed by a drunk driver and his deep sorrow has consumed his faith so completely that he cannot hear God, cannot pray, and cannot stay inside the home they shared. Nate decides to walk out his grief on the Appalachian Trail alone, one prosthetic leg carrying him through five hundred miles of Virginia wilderness.
What he finds on that trail, through bears and thunderstorms and trail angels and one remarkable sunset, forms the spiritual heartbeat of this novel. As Nate’s trek nears its end, Scott drives to pick him up. Jess is in her final weeks of pregnancy.
She has faced down murderers, traffickers, and armed fugitives, but when the serial predator turns his attention to her, Jessica finds herself alone in a dark farmhouse with nothing between her unborn child and a dangerous escaped convict except her wits and her training. A gripping mystery and a story of faith that reaches into the deepest valleys of grief. In A Great and Terrible Darkness, you will find:A heart-pounding mystery featuring a cunning serial predator and two missing womenA deeply moving portrayal of grief, faith, and the long walk back to GodJessica and her brilliant search-and-rescue German shepherd Luke working at the edge of what is safeA vivid journey along the Appalachian Trail through the mountains of VirginiaA climax that will leave you breathless and reaching for the next pageRich themes of friendship, forgiveness, community, and the providence of GodPerfect for readers who love Christian mystery and suspense with authentic faith, flawed and resilient characters, and stories that do not flinch from the dark places life takes us.
This is the sixth book in the beloved K-9 Search and Rescue Series, though it can be read as a standalone. If you have loved the work of Dee Henderson, Lynette Eason, Susan Sleeman, or DiAnn Mills, Linda J. White belongs on your shelf.
The anchor holds. Even in the dark.