It would be a five except that the story got choppy towards the end. A lot of dialogue and tension.. minimal sex. ( )

Loved the dog!!! Dani? Not so much…Trip? Typical muscle bound hero, but okay. You can like him for longer periods of time if you look at his picture on the cover occasionally :) Everything about the dogs and how attached the handlers were to them was interesting and simply....outstanding. To the handlers their dogs were literally life and death and losing them was as bad as losing a family member. The story itself had a tendency to drag on in parts and in others it held my interest even when Dani and Tripp were admiring one another and then continue to argue about whose fault it was they were stuck in a blizzard in a less than perfect cabin in the middle of nowhere Oregon. To his credit, Valor…the dog never uttered a discouraging word...never blamed the two legged disasters and was even willing to share his warm fire. Good dog! ( )