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Willa Honeycutt joins Harmony Hollow's first Pup Parade expecting wagging tails, biscuits, and no murder. Then celebrity rescue influencer Janice Young is found dead in the grooming tent, bludgeoned with Mayor Bell's participation trophy. Janice had been digging into missing dog files, secret placements, and shelter records that didn't match the feel-good adoption stories. Everyone has something to hide: the shelter director with a missing audit file, the breeder Janice took money from, her brother demanding her phone, and a terrified volunteer who knows too much. Sheriff Jack Gilmore orders Willa to stay out of it. She lasts about seven minutes. Soon Willa, her German Shepherd Sadie, her eccentric great-aunt, and two equally meddlesome friends are chasing switched collars, renamed dogs, and a rescue operation with more secrets than Aunt Sylvia's taxidermy collection. When the trail leads to an abandoned stock barn-and a dog never meant to be found-Willa uncovers the ugliest truth of all: Janice wasn't exposing secrets. She was selling them. And now the killer has one last secret to bury... Willa.
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