When people need help or are injured, they call out for their friends and family. When an animal needs help or is injured, it calls out for...anyone...that can help them... One person hears them... Tabitha is determined to bury her aching heart in the service of her animals at Exotic Landscape. Until she's yanked out of her cozy retreat to help someone in need...and she gets more than she bargained for. Detective Ronin Chandler understands secrets. He's got a few of his own. But when the woman he loves gets into trouble - the kind that stretches even his belief system - he struggles to understand...and to help...before he loses her. Maybe forever. As the danger escalates, Tabitha and Ronin need to find out who they can trust...and who they can't...and who wants them dead...before it's too late.