After an injury, Carlton Marsh leaves his federal position to work security. His first assignment is protecting paranoid author Mara Shore, pen-name for Leah Beach. When the threat becomes real, he will do his best to keep her safe. The cane he walks with becomes an asset for her protection. At a Comic-Con the criminals threaten Leah for information about a mule that Leah's rescue ranch acquired. Sylvester the mule was malnourished and in poor health when he came to her. She recently added his picture to the comic strip she creates for each weekday. He is an Appaloosa mule with recognizable spots. During the last federal case Carlton worked, a mule ran him over, reinjuring an old wound and ending his hopes of ever walking without a cane. Carlton recognizes the mule from her drawing. He is angry his boss assigned him to the case involving the same animal. Bettie Boswell has always loved to read and write. That interest helped her create musicals for both church choirs and school students. After retiring from teaching for thirty-three years, she decided to write and illustrate stories to share with the world. Her writing interests extend from works for children to adults and from fiction to non-fiction. At the time of this writing she has eight children's books. She recently joined Mt. Zion Ridge Press as a children's editor. Hidden Talent is her sixth novel for Christian adult readers and third Christian romantic suspense in the Forest Glen Suspense Series. Her other novels, in the related On Cue Series, are contemporary and split-time Christian romances. So far, all the novels have taken place near the fictional town of Forest Glen. There is at least one more in the works that will involve K-9 Officer Marta Miller from this book. Bettie has written other works for the education market, magazine articles, and contributed to lesson plan collections, devotionals, Guideposts true story collections, and short story anthologies. She is a minister's wife, church musician, mother of two grown men, has one daughter-in-law, and is a grandma to three talented grandchildren. She loves the arts and shares her doodles, and photography from her daily walks, on social media.