Two Weeks Until LEAVE NO TRACE — A Sneak Peek at Chapter One, a Party Invitation, and a Bonus Cover Reveal

We’re two weeks away from the launch of FBI K-9s #5, LEAVE NO TRACE, and today I’ve got a sneak peek of Chapter One for you, as well as a party invitation.

Special Agent Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue K-9 partner are heading south where it’s hunting season. But this time the prey is human.

One arrow through the heart could be a tragic hunting accident. A second one, within days, looks more like a crime. That’s when Meg Jennings and Brian Foster of the FBI’s Forensic Canine Unit head to Georgia to investigate. With their dogs Hawk and Lacey, Meg and Brian are enlisted to follow the scent of a killer. At first, nothing seems to connect the two victims–a county commissioner and State Patrol officer.  But the blood sport around the southern town of Blue Ridge is just beginning.

As the body count rises, the compound bow killer becomes even more elusive, appearing and vanishing like a ghost. However, with each new slaying, Meg is beginning to suspect the grim design that’s escalating in the shadows. At its heart, a tragic event that reaches back nearly two centuries in Georgia’s history is now turning Blue Ridge into a hunting ground. But as Meg gets closer to solving the puzzle, the closer she is to stepping into the crosshairs of an elusive murderer with deadly aim, and motives as deep and dark as the woods . . .

Sound interesting? Get a taste of the book here with Chapter One. Enjoy!

Pre-sale links are live. As always, all advanced and initial buys help keep the series strong and increase our chance of further books. And are very appreciated! Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop.org, Hudson Booksellers, IndieBound, Indigo, Target, and Walmart.

I also have news about the launch of LEAVE NO TRACE. For my last few books launches, I've joined with a group of Kensington authors to celebrate together. And this launch will be no exception:

Please join me with Ellery Adams, V.M. Burns, Stephanie Graves, Jeff Gunhus, Sherry Harris, Edwin Hill, Meg Macy, Rose Pressey, Angela M. Sanders, and Karen Rose Smith as we celebrate our new releases as part of a Facebook event. Please stop by and sign up as Going or Interested to receive up to date news on the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/196606035392643. Our books all come out on December 29th, but January is really blah after the holiday whirl, so we decided to liven it up by postponing our launch for one week and running it on January 5th instead. I hope you can join us! There will be a ton of prizes being given away that night, so don't miss out!

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And last, but definitely not least, I have a special reveal. The second book in the NYPD Negotiators series launches on August 31, 2021 and I've got a special sneak preview of the cover.

In Jen J. Danna’s gripping suspense series, NYPD detective Gemma Capello is called to Rikers Island, where a prison riot threatens to become a bloodbath . . .

On Rikers Island, tensions always run high, especially in the Enhanced Supervision Housing unit. The ESH is home to Rikers’ most dangerous offenders, many of them members of rival street gangs. When Gemma Capello and her team get word of an uprising at the ESH, they know how much is at stake. Gemma also has her own unresolved feelings to deal with—this is the first case she and Detective Sean Logan have worked together since a siege at City Hall that ended with the hostage taker’s death.

Built to hinder escape, prisons are also especially difficult for a tactical team to invade. That’s a last resort for Gemma, but the longer the inmates remain in control, holding corrections officers hostage, the greater the risk. Gemma begins negotiating with Kill Switch, a young, aggressive member of the Filero Kings gang and the inmates’ spokesman. She can tell the stress level is escalating inside. That may give her team some advantages, but it soon leads to a brutal act of retribution—and threats of more to come.

Navigating assumptions on all sides, Gemma desperately tries to stop the body count from rising. But with disagreements and volatility increasing all around, the only certainty is that the next misstep may be a fatal one . . .

This one is a real nail-biter, and is definitely the kind of situation that could happen tomorrow in any of the country's incarceration facilities. So keep it in mind for summer 2021!