Deadly Alaskan Pursuit by Terri Reed

Author:Terri Reed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-06-17T13:36:01+00:00

Contents

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ONE

Despite the bright blue of the May sky above, a chill cut through the Alaskan air that sent shivers of trepidation running down Trooper Poppy Walsh’s spine. Her eyes scanned the empty windows of Glacier Bay National Park’s remote cabins. The place was deserted, still awaiting the flocks of tourists who’d arrive in the coming weeks when things really kicked off for the season.

It was the unwelcomed guests who might’ve been squatting here as they illegally hunted defenseless bear cubs that she and her K-9 partner, Stormy, were here to sniff out. The body of a known poacher had been found shot dead and floating in the water by park troopers. Rumor among the locals was that his fellow poachers had turned on him after they captured a cub and that they were now hunting the park for the baby bear’s sibling.

Poppy glanced around the towering spruce and made sure they were alone. Then she reached over and unclipped the Irish wolfhound from her leash. She ran her hand along Stormy’s shaggy gray fur, feeling the dog’s tension radiating through her fingers. Standing at almost three feet tall on all fours, with a friendly hound-dog face and a protective guardian nature, it took a lot to put the dog on edge. Did Stormy detect something? Or was she just reflecting Poppy’s own uneasiness back to her like a mirror?

Poppy prayed and asked God to help her focus. If poachers were hiding out somewhere in the park, that could put tourists’ lives in danger, as well as those of the baby animals they captured to sell on the black market. And yet, Poppy’s nerves had been frayed ever since the small plane that had brought herself, fellow trooper Will Stryker and their K-9 partners here had taken off from Anchorage. As they’d circled the airstrip of the small town of Gustavus, and she’d looked down to see a scattering of houses give way to a port full of boats, towering trees, majestic glaciers and the roaring Pacific beyond, just one thought had filled her mind—this was where she and Lex Fielding were supposed to go on their honeymoon.

The park ranger had been the reason she’d finally given up her job at Kenai Fjords National Park to become a K-9 trooper. On the night he’d taken her face into his strong hands and asked her to be his wife, her former colleague had told Poppy the deep green of her eyes reminded him of the Glacier Bay’s evergreens. He’d promised to bring her here. Just like he’d promised to marry her and to stand by her side for everything life threw at them. Instead, his fear of being anyone’s husband or father had apparently wrenched them apart and he’d broken her heart, calling off the wedding just a week before the big day and leaving her with an invisible wound that still ached after all these years.

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