The Burning Season

K-9 Search & Rescue Mysteries, Book 5

By: Sophie Lyon

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Twenty-five years of waiting. One trial to end it all. And a wildfire that's about to change everything.

Warren Haskell is finally on trial for the murder of Brianna Hartley. The evidence is overwhelming—a recorded confession, a body recovered from his family's mine, witnesses who saw him with the victim the night she disappeared. After everything Gemma and her allies have sacrificed, justice seems inevitable.

But Warren Haskell didn't build an empire by losing.

His defense team is ruthless. The evidence is being picked apart. And Gemma watches helplessly as the case she helped build begins to crumble under cross-examination.

Then the fire comes and reveals another buried truth.

When a wildfire sweeps through the mountains, Gemma and Kira are called to search the devastation. What they find in the ashes isn't a lost hiker—it's the remains of a man who died years ago in what was ruled an accident.

It wasn't an accident. And Warren Haskell isn't the only killer who's been hiding in plain sight.

With the trial hanging in the balance and Kira's aging body finally showing the cost of years of service, Gemma must navigate a web of lies that stretches from the fire station to the courthouse—while fighting to ensure that this time, justice won't slip away.

The fire reveals everything. Even the things we wish would stay buried.

The Burning Season is the searing fifth novel in the K-9 Search and Rescue Mystery series, perfect for readers who love:

• Courtroom drama with high stakes
• Wildfire survival and search-and-rescue action
• Dual investigations with shocking connections
• Aging K-9 partners who never give up

Not all monsters hide in the dark. Some hide in plain sight.

Horrible changes to the storyline from what was previously written.

Book 5 of a series and had to stop at chapter 7, I’ve tried to disregard the blatant changes to the storyline from previous books and it’s just too much. A trial for just one murder when in the last book the defendant had killed a person to keep her quiet and there is no mention at all of this person & the events! It’s just gone from the story. Another character who to my opinion should not have been charged with anything since the person he hurt had kept silent and taken money for 25 years in which she could have prevented years of suffering for that family. He did not go there with intent to murder or harm her but it escalated to an injury. If anything he should have been tried for assault, but now he’s serving 8 years for attempted murder, so ridiculous.
It’s like the author is trying to write Stand Alone books but that’s not possible since the storyline is continuing through the series with the same main characters. So with this she’s changing or deleting previous events to maybe try to make the story more interesting. I don’t know but for a series of books this is just too frustrating on the changes when the author should remember what was previously written it makes it more unbelievable and a waste of time.