Karen Ball is the acquisitions editor in charge of the fiction publishing program for the B&H Publishing Group. She has been both a full-time freelance editor and author, and has worked in the Christian publishing industry for more than twenty years. After nearly 12 years with Tyndale House Publishers as senior editor of books, she served as senior editor of fiction for Multnomah Publishers, and for three years was the executive editor of fiction for Zondervan. She has worked with a number of popular authors including Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, Terri Blackstock, Robin Lee Hatcher and James Scott Bell.

Karen lives in southern Oregon with her husband, Don, and their "kids", a mischief making Siberian husky named Bo, and an irrepressible blue-eyed Aussie-Terrier mix named Dakota.
 

Visit her web site at www.karenballbooks.com.

Someone wants Annie to fail...either that, or he wants her dead.

Annie Justice has it all. She's a successful stained glass artist and, along with her German shepherd, Kodi, one of the most effective K-9 Search and Rescue teams in the Northwest.

So why doesn't she feel like she fits in anywhere?

E.J. Curry, a slick producer of hit reality TV shows, likes it that Annie's different. Different sells. Maybe so, but Annie doesn’t want anything to do with the show. Or the man.

Then the two of them are thrown into the path of danger. Joined in a race against time and an unknown, cunning adversary, Annie and Jed must find a way to work together. Because if they don’t, it could cost them—and a little girl lost in the Oregon wilderness—everything.

"An intriguing story that kept me turning pages and guessing the truth right up to the end!" TRACIE PETERSEN, best-selling author

"I've said it before—I'm not a fan of suspense, even romantic suspense. But I'll read anything Karen Ball writes!" ANE MULLIGAN, novelreviews.blogspot.com

Multnomah (2006)