Fight Or Flight - Shojai, Amy

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Résumé :
The 4th installment of Shojai's dark, female-driven domestic thriller series...featuring pet-centric plots! FIGHT OR FLIGHT fills in the blanks of Shadow's missing week from SHOW AND TELL (Book #3). Lia Corazon channels her energy and emotions into the dogs she trains in her North Texas dog training kennel. She especially enjoys Karma's enthusiasm, but the Rottweiler pup's owner makes her uneasy. There's something very...wrong about him. After a vicious storm destroys her kennel, flooding washes a mysterious black German Shepherd into her life. Shadow's presence awakens hidden talents within Lia, talents she suspects come from the parents she's never known. She'll do anything to discover the truth about her Hawaiian roots. When a dog training exercise takes a deadly turn, Lia turns to police Detective Jeff Combs for help and learns the killer targets Hawaiian girls just like her. She sends Karma to protect a young run-away, but the killer will burn anybody who crosses him. Police dogs are born to love, trained to serve, and called to protect. To fulfill her destiny, Karma must defeat instinct to save her family. Through the process, she'll discover what Shadow already knows: that home isn't a place--it's a person. ...

Biographie:
Amy Shojai, CABC is a certified animal behavior consultant and award-winning pet care book author, speaker, and expert. She lives in Texas with her furry muses....

Sommaire:
JOIN Amy's Audacious Allies, SUBSCRIBE to her free newsletter, READ her pet-centric blog: http://AmyShojai.com Amy Shojai is a nationally known authority on pet care and behavior, a certified animal behavior consultant, a spokesperson for the pet products industry, and the author of 30 nonfiction pet books. She also writes THRILLERS WITH BITE! which includes the dog-viewpoint thrillers LOST AND FOUND, HIDE AND SEEK and SHOW AND TELL. Amy addresses a wide range of fun-to-serious issues in her work, covering dog and cat training, behavior, natural and allopathic health care, nutrition, first aid, aging pets, the bond and cutting-edge medical topics. In her nonfiction books, she empowers pet lovers by providing the information they need to make informed decisions for their cats and dogs. She specializes in translating medicalese into easily understood jargon-free language, making it accessible to all pet lovers. Oh, and she loves bling-icity! Her work has been honored with over three dozen writing awards and she is a two-time recipient of the Friskies Writer of the Year award. Her articles currently appear in the Herald Democrat newspaper, on puppies.About.com and cats.About.com, PetHealthyStore.com and PetSafe.net and she's published several thousand articles and columns during her career. She presents a twice-monthly Pet Talk segment at KXII-CBS, hosted the weekly Pet Peeves at PetLifeRadio.com and is an expert on Animal Planet DOGS 101 and CATS 101. Sometimes she has time to sleep. Amy has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and in The Wall Street Journal, USA Weekend, The New York Times, Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Woman's World, and many other leading newspapers and magazines. She has also been a featured pet care expert on Animal Planet Dogs 101, Cats 101, Petsburgh USA/Disney Channel program, Good Day New York, Fox News: Pet News, NBC Today Show, WGN-Chicago Pet Central and Animal Planet Radio and many others. She is an active member of the International Thriller Writers, certified member of International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, founder and Past President of the Cat Writers' Association, member of the Dog Writers Association of America, and Past President and Honorary Lifetime Member of Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. She frequently speaks to groups on a variety of pet-related and writing issues, lectures at veterinary and writer conferences, and conducts training and behavior demonstrations around the country. She and her husband live with assorted critters at Rosemont, their thirteen-acre spread in north Texas. Find more information about her work at www.shojai.com and follow her Bling, Bitches & Blood Blog at http://amyshojai.com...