Susan May Warren’s bestselling Montana Rescue series returns with the New Watch.

New watch. Same mountains. Same promise: everybody comes home.

Some people run from danger. They were made to run toward it.

She photographed a daring mountain rescue. It was a murder.

Disgraced reporter Brynn Walker is one marmot feature away from losing her mind. Then her 500mm lens catches a man dangling from a rope above Lake McDonald—and the two men hauling him up have no harness, no anchor, and no intention of saving him.

PEAK Rescue never ran a call on that ridge.

Two hours later her apartment is ransacked, her memory cards are gone, and someone wants to know what else she shot.

So Brynn does the only thing she can think of. She throws her arms around the PEAK rookie in her doorway and calls him sweetheart.

Xander Sullivan checks every knot twice—because the last time he hesitated, someone didn’t come home. Playing Brynn’s fake boyfriend isn’t in any manual. Neither is a cut brake line, a tail through town, or a missing priest’s journal full of names and numbers nobody was meant to decode.

Now they’re running into Glacier’s backcountry with a spring blizzard closing in, wolves at the cabin door, and no idea who in Mercy Falls they can trust.

She trusts no one. He doesn’t trust himself. And the ice is already cracking.

In the mountains, not everyone who falls was climbing.