Staying away was harder than he thought … arrived. Considering this was one of the missing War Dogs that Titanium Corp was handling, Carter was happy to assist. Maybe even relieved as it gave him a reason to go where he’d been afraid to go before.
Walking into her partner’s office to find his dead body on the floor had sent Hailey down a nightmarish path that never seemed to end. Then it had started with Carter’s arrival. What else should she expect from the man who she’d always loved and who had rejected her time and time again. She’d hoped the attraction to him would have lessened by now, but it was even worse.
As the body count mounts, and the town takes sides, Hailey realizes that Carter was always the one to back her up, even when it meant he could die in this fight that’s gone to hell. Particularly when Carter finds the missing K9 dog, and his current owner is on the wrong side of the war …
Only Carter doesn’t care, knowing he’d always stand on the side of right, but maybe—if he was lucky this time—he wouldn’t be standing alone …
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What an absolutely amazing book with well developed characters and a fast-paced story that kept me totally involved in all that was happening from beginning to end when Carter goes to Montana to check on a war dog named Matzuka who was missing. I loved Carter and his dynamic with his best friend’s sister, Hailey, who finds her business partner dead in his office. If you enjoy well written suspenseful stories, don’t miss “Carter”, book seven in the must-read K9 Files series by gifted author, Dale Mayer. I received an advance reader copy of this book from Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving my review.
This is a well written story, full of suspense, drama, danger, mystery, romance and action. The characters are well developed and are likeable. I recommend this book both as a stand-alone and as part of this fabulous series. A really great read.
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If I could give this more than 5 stars, I definitely would. The mystery and intrigue surrounding the disappearance of this particular War Dog (WD) is one that kept me turning pages to get to the end. But there is more going on then just a missing WD. There have been several murders. Either the key suspect or the next murder victim, Hailey, is Carter’s best friend’s (Gordon) younger sister. Hailey has loved Carter for so long. But she made a play for him and was turned down. Then Carter married a b!t@h, a double whammy to poor Hailey. The sparks off of these two were hot. Gordon called it correct to Carter about Hailey’s attraction but poor Carter doesn’t see it.
I adored the dual POV format that the book was written in. Getting into both Carter’s and Hailey’s thoughts really helped me to thoroughly connect with them. The action was fast and furious. The mystery and intrigue just kept piling on. I couldn’t read fast enough.
There was a sexy scene but it was tastefully written with nothing graphic in nature. I can HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book to anyone over the age of 18. This can be a stand-alone story BUT the entire series is really fantastic and shouldn’t be missed.
4.5 Stars
This is book 7 in the K-9 Files series and it features Carter and Hailey. She is his best friends sister and has been attracted to her for the past 10 years. Haley has loved Carter since she was a teenager but didn’t believe he held any attraction towards her. He even married and divorced another woman. Being rejected twice, once when she professed her teenage crush to him and the second time was when he married another woman, has made Haley a little hostile towards him. After Carter’s career as a Navy SEAL ended with a medical discharge, he’s returned to Montana to hunt down War Dog, Matzuka. What Carter finds is a town so overrun with one family that murder and mayhem are taking over.
The action, suspense and romance in this story line are fantastic! It’s the perfect blend. This is my favorite in the series so far. I can’t wait for the next one.
Carter by Dale Mayer
The K-9 Files Book Seven
Carter Batterbridge has been working with Titanium Corp, helping with building houses for vets. When asked if he wanted to head to Montana to find a K9 War Dog that went missing, he goes. He’s been avoiding his best friend for long enough. Gordon is a rancher and Carter has spent a lot of time there since his teens.
Hailey Wallerton, Gordon’s younger sister, and Carter have always fought like cats and dogs. Hailey had a childhood crush on Carter but now she was all grown up and a partner in a financial firm.
When Carter hits town, murder and mayhem seemed to follow. He had a dog to find, but also friends to protect. Page-turning story of romance and danger. I really enjoy the K9 Files.
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Carters book is great! He returns to Montana to look for a missing war dog and catch up with old friends. The best friends little sister still got the hots for Carter. Missing dog, dead bodies, crooked law-enforcement, all of it makes for a great story.
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Dale Mayer continues to amaze me! No matter how many books she writes she always creates unusual and exciting plots with lots of twists.
Matzuka is a retired war dog. The military sent him to a small town in Montana to be adopted by a loving family. Unfortunately, Matzuka never made it to his new home and now appears to be lost.
Carter has recently retired from the Navy after a long recovery from a devastating accident. His best friend, Gordon, owns a ranch in Montana, the town where Matzuka has disappeared. When Carter is asked to search for him, he uses Gordon’s ranch as his base.
Hailey is Gordon’s sister and also lives on the ranch. She has always been in love with Carter, even though he has never noticed her. She is a partner in a finance company where her two partners have just died. Hailey is an independent woman who is smart, courageous and refuses to take a back seat in the investigation of the deaths of her two partners.
Ms. Mayer’s plot is complex with lots of action and intrigue. Matzuka’s disappearance appears to be tied to the deaths of Hailey’s partners and to the recent shooting of Gordon.
In this book, there is a whole family of villains who are evil to the core. However, even though we know who the “bad guys” are, the author keeps the readers guessing how Hailey, Carter and Gordon will ever be able to crush their enemies.
All of this adds up to an exciting page-turner that will hold your attention to the very end.
Carter was injured badly in the war, and faced a long recovery. While he was healing, his wife divorced him. And while his best friend Gordon begged him to come to Montana, he didn’t like the idea of his best friend take care of him. Then there was Gordon’s sister Hailey, whom he always thought hated him. But when a War Dog goes missing in his town, Carter decides it’s time to go back, after being asked by the Titanium Group. What he finds when he gets there, is a prickly Hailey, who also has load on her plate! Carter needs to find the dog, but people are dying, specific people. But who can they trust? Another Great story from Dale!
Carter has not visited his best friend Gordon since his accident. Carter is reluctant to visit Gordon because he thinks he will be a burden to Gordon and his sister Hailey hates him. Grier thinks that having Carter going to see his friend will go a long way to his healing. To give Carter the little push he needs, Grier assigns Matzuka (the next war dog on his list) to Carter. It looks like it is going to take a lot of luck to find Matzuka since the dog has been missing for 3 months. When Carter arrives he finds out that finding Matzuka is a lot easier than sorting out the mess that has he finds Hailey in. While Carter helps save his friends, he realizes that there is a fine line between love and hate. This book is definitely worth reading, I couldn’t put it down once I started it.
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Oh how I loved how Hailey kept trying to keep Carter at arms length and pretend she hated him while everyone but she and Carter knew exactly how she really felt. There was a great mix of fun, laughter, mystery, danger and falling in love.
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The K9 series is just awesome! The Titanium corporation continues the quest to locate and save the missing war dogs. In this instance Carter and Hailey reunite to find Matzuka and solve the situation that Hailey finds herself in. This is an amazing story, filled with lost love finding each other, suspense and action as well as the a great glimpse into our returning war heroes and what they face (both human and dog!)
Every book in this series has been a great second chance story and a fantastic read!
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This is a fantastic series about the K-9 war dogs and what happens to them when they leave the service.
Carter is an injured Navy Seal ask to find the missing war dog Matzuka in Montana near his friend Gordon’s ranch.
Hailey his friends sister has been in love with Carter for a long time. This is a great story that has suspense and you really love the main character.
I would recommend this series to anyone.
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Carter gets his story. First, any story with a dog will already get my attention. When you add in Hailey and Carter’s second chance, a mystery with her company, and a host of suspects, how can you go wrong? I love this series and it has women who are smart and strong, along with men who are tried and true as well as very brave. Such a great story!
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This is my favorite so far from the K9 series by this author. Carter is asked to track down another missing retired K9 and ends up going back to his hometown where his best friend and his younger sister still live on the ranch he used to call home. Carter is reluctant to go back after his accident but decides he is as ready as he will be. Gordon accepts him with open arms but Hailey is a bit reluctant, she’s been in love with Carter for years and he has broken her heart more than once, her defence is being prickly and the two are always at odds. When Hailey discovers one of her partners dead and the other as well, she may be next in line as it seems the town family bullies are out for more than what they have….can Carter solve the mystery and keep Hailey safe.
A great read with some steam, suspense, a mystery and two people who should have been together years ago, find their chance now. I liked Hailey, she was strong, smart and had a backbone not allowing anyone to walk all over her. Carter finally lets himself to let go of the past and move forward especially with Hailey. These two lit up the pages and made the perfect couple, along with a great characters and a great plot that wraps up nicely in the end.
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This book caught my attention from the start and kept it till the end. I loved how the series is about K-9’s and how the story is centered around the particular dog. The characters in the book are awesome and their interaction keeps you engrossed in the story line. The story grabs hold of you and takes you on a ride trying to figure out what is going to happen at the end. I love this series and it seems each book in the series is awesome. This book will definitely hold on to your attention and if you like suspense and some action and a bit of romance, you will love this book!
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This series is so good!
I love that this series is all about War Dogs and the heros that they are. It doesn’t hurt that it’s also about romance and finding forever love either.
Hailey has remarkable work ethic. She’s a partner/part owner in a financial company managing millions of dollars every day for her clients, she is also half owner with her brother, Gordon, on their family’s Montana ranch where she’s not afraid to sweat or get her hands dirty. Her determination to get where she’s going with her own hard work and by her own merit is admirable.
Carter, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, was wounded in action and has endured considerable rehab to be functional again. He is still looking for that second career that will keep him interested and motivated well into his senior years, he just has to keep himself busy during his search. He has neglected his best friend, Gordon, while he was recovering and now it’s time to pay him a visit and find the missing War Dog, Matzuka, and his adopted family. Little does Carter know, is that the local Longfellow generational family makes up most of the little town and runs things as they see fit including the local drug supply, are the ones who were to adopt Matzuka.
I appreciate Hailey’s attitude when it comes to seeing Carter again. She was interested in a relationship with him long before he was injured and he completely ignored her. He didn’t want to interfere with his friendship with Gordon by dating his buddy’s sister. Then he went and married someone else!
I really enjoyed this exciting story about small town issues that turn into murder, mystery and danger for Hailey and her brother. Hailey finds herself the only surviving partner of the financial company and several suspects could be very close associates working for her. Carter’s main focus was finding Matzuka, now it includes protecting and keeping Hailey safe.
Great story! I loved it!
And I thought I had family issues…
Carter’s best friend, Gordon and his younger sister, Hailey, live in the same Montana town where War Dog Matzuka was headed months ago for retirement. Before his accident, whenever Carter had leave from his military service, he would go to Gordon’s ranch and help him by doing handyman-type work. Hailey had grown up hoping that she and Carter would someday marry and have a family together. But back then, she was so young that Carter would never risk his friendship with Gordon to even consider her. Carter married someone else, who divorced him while he recovered from the accident that left him with injuries too severe to continue his military service.
Also, timing being what it was, Gordon’s and Hailey’s father died right around the time Carter was facing all the surgeries and rehab in addition to the divorce. Thus, neither Carter nor Gordon had any opportunity to provide support to each other at their most trying times. At Titanium Corp Carter had been trying to find a way to reintegrate to civilian life and perhaps start his own home building company. Feeling less than fit and confident to offer his services to help Gordon at the ranch like he used to, Carter uses the search for Matzuka as a reason to visit Gordon, who is having his own problems with someone causing border issues with his ranch. Hailey, now thirty years old, is a partner in a financial services firm that manages several very big accounts. After having found some suspicious ledger sheets on the copy machine recently, Hailey had begun to think that someone was embezzling from their company. Again, timing being what it is, one of Hailey’s partners, Fred Longfellow, is found dead in his office from a gunshot the morning after Carter’s arrival.
So, we have Matzuka, who had been approved for adoption by Brenda Longfellow at the town where three generations of the Longfellow family live. We have the death of Fred Longfellow and suspected embezzler in his and Hailey’s company, and we have Gordon’s dispute with (wait for it…) the Longfellow family over the lines between their properties. Carter has literally walked into a trifecta of trouble. Wow! Great story, great people, lots of mystery in this small Montana town. Loved it!!!
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This is the 7th book in the K9 Files series, it can be read as a standalone story. Another action packed story with loads of drama and intrigue, an interesting fast-paced romance between Carter and his best friends sister, Hailey who is having a bad day when she finds her business dead in his office, Carter is determined to help his friend and the woman who has captured his heart while trying to find the missing war dog who was adopted out to the family terrorising the town.
I’m loving this series, the heroes are wonderful, the heroines are incredibly likable, strong and independent. The dogs all have their own characters as well.
Dale Mayer never disappoint, always brings us one alpha hero to love.
Ex-SEAL, loves to protect, hates injustice, a bit arrogant, oozes dominant power, what’s not to love, right?!?! Definitely love him from the get go. Then there’s feisty smart heroine to match up with him and also amazing K9 dog and then added the suspense story with crazy family affairs, murders, greed, and that mix between second-chance and enemies-to-lovers story, yup it has the perfect dosage of actions, romance and suspense. In other words, a perfect book for a suspense read lovers.
Carter is so captivating. Dale Mayer has written a masterpiece. Enthralling and inspiring, action packed and edge of your seat heart stopping goodness, this is a must read.