Age Group: 12+ Years

Description: Kira still recalls the day Cady Bennett and her elite search-and-rescue dog discovered her as a feral child, surviving alone in the unforgiving wild with no past in sight. Now a skilled teen tracker adopted into the Bennett family—alongside Cady's son Jude and neighbor Free—Kira trains world-class SAR dogs across vast wilderness. When Cady's estranged father Bales arrives with urgent pleas to find nine-year-old Bella Anthony, lost amid a string of disappearances in Sierra Glades National Park, Kira dives into the 750,000-acre hunt. But escalating perils unearth buried family secrets, stirring Kira's haunting memories. To save one lost girl, she must confront the savage truths of her own origins—and what the wild still hides. Recommended reading age of 14+ yrs given the mature themes explored in the book.