When eighteen-year-old Hannah goes missing in the bush and is found deceased, dog groomer Brittany Vale is left with grief, guilt, and one unbearable question: what if someone had reached her sooner?Then Brittany meets Ranger, a failed military dog with a disastrous history. Rejected for being too playful to attack and deafened after retrieving a live grenade, Ranger is considered untrainable. Brittany sees something else — not a failed weapon, but a lifeline waiting for a purpose.When experienced search-and-rescue coordinator Lauren Ashford is called out of retirement after Hannah's case breaks the former coordinator, Brittany brings Ranger into Lauren's world of maps, weather, lost tracks, and hard decisions.Lauren is older, guarded, and determined not to let grief make Brittany reckless. But when another person vanishes in the same unforgiving bushland, Brittany and Ranger may be the unlikely chance Lauren never expected.

When eighteen-year-old Hannah goes missing in the bush and is found deceased, dog groomer Brittany Vale is left with grief, guilt, and one unbearable question: what if someone had reached her sooner?Then Brittany meets Ranger, a failed military dog with a disastrous history. Rejected for being too playful to attack and deafened after retrieving a live grenade, Ranger is considered untrainable. Brittany sees something else — not a failed weapon, but a lifeline waiting for a purpose.When experienced search-and-rescue coordinator Lauren Ashford is called out of retirement after Hannah's case breaks the former coordinator, Brittany brings Ranger into Lauren's world of maps, weather, lost tracks, and hard decisions.Lauren is older, guarded, and determined not to let grief make Brittany reckless. But when another person vanishes in the same unforgiving bushland, Brittany and Ranger may be the unlikely chance Lauren never expected.