A Great And Terrible Darkness | Linda J. White

Book #6 in the K-9 Search & Rescue Series Jessica Cooper may be pregnant but she's not going to let that keep her from SAR and her PI business. Consulting on a missing student case, she travels to Harrisonburg with Luke, who finds the first significant clue in the Heather Burgess disappearance.  Jess drives home pleased, but soon after, tragedy strikes. A devastating loss throws Nate into a paroxysm of grief and it's not clear he'll ever recover. A couple of months later, Nate makes a crazy decision: He'll hike out his grief on the Virginia portion of the Appalachian Trail, alone except for his black German Shepherd, Ember.  Jess is panicked, convinced her friend is making a foolish if not fatal mistake. But what can she do about it? Nothing. So she continues to work on her searches and prepare for her baby. when a second college student goes missing in the very mountains Nate is hiking, Jess and Luke scramble to help. Circumstances collide, paths cross, and in the end, it's Jess w