Missing and Endangered

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NEWYORK TIMES BESTSELLERCochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's professional andpersonal lives collide when her college-age daughter is involved in a missingpersons case in this evocative and atmospheric mystery in J. A. Jance's NewYork Times bestselling suspense series, set in the beautiful desert countryof the American Southwest.When Jennifer Brady returns to Northern Arizona Universityfor her sophomore year, she quickly becomes a big sister to her new roommate, Beth Rankin, a brilliant yet sheltered sixteen-year-old freshman. For ahomeschooled Beth, college is her first taste of both freedom and unfetteredaccess to the internet, and Jenny is concerned that she's too naïve andrebellious for her own good.Her worries are well-founded because one day Beth vanishes, prompting Jenny to alert campus authorities, local police, and her mom, SheriffJoanna Brady--who calls in a favor. Beth is found, but Jenny's concern hasunwittingly put her in the crosshairs of a criminal bent on revenge.With Christmas vacation approaching, and Beth at war withher parents, Jenny invites Beth to the shelter of the Brady home. While Joannais sympathetic, she's caught up in a sensitive case--an officer-involvedshooting that has placed the lives of two young children in jeopardy--leavingher stretched thin to help a fragile young woman recently gone missing andendangered.