Lia's loyalties are tested when Peter arrests the wrong woman for murder. Lia Anderson's escape-artist foster dog shows up with a human femur, sending Detective Peter Dourson on a hunt that ends with an ironclad case against Kitty, the dead man's high school sweetheart. Lia shouldn't have skin in this game, but she helped Peter apprehend Kitty and now she feels responsible. Worse, she believes Kitty may be innocent. When Lia's best patron takes up Kitty's cause, the pressure is on for the dog park gang to uncover the truth.

It's a truth that could get Lia killed.

Curl up with Maximum Security, a romp of a mystery laced with humor, dogs, and love.

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