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<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With her housemate Blake away and her lover Chase also absent Sam Westin embarks on a backpacking trip in the North Cascades hoping to photograph elusive gray wolves. Blake reeling from a recent breakup has taken a six-week job far away in Evansburg caring for three gorillas while their owner Dr. Grace McKenna is on vacation. But events take a dark turn when the baby gorilla is shot by an intruder prompting Grace's lover Detective Finn to investigate.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sam's impromptu trip becomes dangerous when she finds a corpse and then stumbles upon an injured immigrant and packhorse carrying drugs. After a gunshot forces her to flee her campsite Sam faces a perilous cross-country journey with the injured man and horse in tow.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In Evansburg while following the trail of the gorilla shooting Detective Finn stumbles upon a murdered woman in a nearby abandoned house and her child hiding in the gorilla barn. With both investigations going nowhere fast it will take Sam visiting Blake and the gorillas to spot a clue that may be the link needed to solve all the crimes.</span></p><p></p><p>Book 7 of the Sam Westin Wilderness Mysteries</p><p></p>