Deadly Trespass: A Mystery In Maine

Cassandra Patton Conover is about to become an outlaw.
Hiding out from middle age, divorce, and the remains of a legislative lobbying career, Patton is holed up in her family's ancient Maine camp. While searching for her badly-behaved, wayward dog in dense woods, she finds her best friend crushed under a tree. Then she finds tracks larger than any animal she knows and a mystery only wild animals can help her solve.

Before she can absorb the loss of her friend, a large newspaper that smells a story hires Patton to guide a surly reporter seeking extinct wolves he thinks have returned to Maine. The forest, however, has too many wolf agendas. A billionaire hopes wolves will become a save-the-forest strategy. A timber company plans to exterminate the pack, and a black ops mercenary rips open Patton's wounded life so he can aim her at the wolves.

When gold wolf eyes issue a challenge at her tent door, Patton is drawn deeper into her friend's mysterious murder and the wolves' fate. To find her friend's killer, she must find and trust the pack. To save her dog, the wolves, and her own life, she must step outside the law, sacrifice her career, and embrace a wild world. (Sandra won the Mystery Writers of America national McCloy Award and was a finalist in the Women's Fiction Writers Association "Rising Star" contest.)