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Something terrifying is happening to the pups in the hill community of Mason Region, Virginia. Dogs are vanishing mysteriously and "missing dog" posters cover the holding out room wall surfaces at Dr. Rachel Goddard's veterinary clinic. A pack of feral canines roams at night, attacking livestock in a needy search for food. Now a visible physician, Gordon Hall, has been found useless in his backyard, his throat torn wide open. Sheriff's Section investigator Tom Bridger believes the killing was premeditated murder, with a trained episode dog as the weapon. Are these relatively unconnected events in some way related? Tom thinks they are, and he suspects they're linked to the resurgence of an old problem: against the law dogfighting. Dr. Hall's child insists that the feral pups killed his daddy, and he organizes several men to find and blast the family pets. Rachel and her good friend Holly Turner make foes by wanting to rescue the pups and move these to the sanctuary that Holly has created. Tom, in love with Rachel and worried about her safety, must separate his time between the feral dog problem, the search for the dogfighting operation, and the search for Gordon Hall's killer. Could it be that you of Hall's five children-three followed, all psychologically starved by their parents-holds the main element to his murder? Why is the youngest Hall child so frightened that she begs Rachel, a stranger, for help? Tom and Rachel face two killers, one people and one canine, and discover a far more intricate web of lays and brutality than they ever imagined.