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Challenge in the Golden State
Paperback
Series: Challenge
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Drew and Kit Coons
Published: Nov 28 2026
Pages: 376
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Challenge Series novels follow Dave and Katie Parker as they solve mysteries, thwart criminal enterprises, and find adventures. They meet and help colorful characters in charming settings. Readers will experience new places and cultures with Dave and Katie. Fish-out-of-water situations allow readers to experience diverse settings through the characters' eyes. Dave and Katie's ability to work as a team deepens with each mystery they unravel. All the Challenge novels have been professionally illustrated and take place in locales where the authors have actually lived.
While on vacation with her husband in California, Katie Parker discovers two victims of an opioid overdose. A man is already dead. The other-a teenage girl-barely survives. The small town of Redwood Hills, situated among giant trees between California's rugged coastline and picturesque wine country, has suffered an escalating rash of tragic overdoses.
A folksy and manipulative sheriff beguiles Dave and Katie into an investigation to discover the source of illicit drugs. Criminal elements of the community are threatened as Dave and Katie find evidence of a wicked scheme. The crooks fight back in nefarious ways, including the use of poison and planting false evidence that leads to Dave and Katie's arrest.
With no one to trust, the Parkers summon their son and daughter-in-law for assistance. But Jeremy and Denyse are each facing their own crises in Mobile and Melbourne (Australia) and need help, too. As Dave and Katie pursue truth and personal exoneration, they must decide if they can place their trust in an unexpected and unlikely ally.
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