Introduction This story arrived at a curious time in my writing career. I had only written one other dog story before this one, Reaching Out at Henderson’s Ranch (HR #2), a full year earlier. But a fan who helps train MWDs convinced me that the Henderson’s Ranch series needed more dogs in it. So I’d been madly researching MWDs (Military War Dogs). Little did I know at that time that it would become the defining core of the Henderson’s Ranch series as well as the (then) barely conceived White House Protection Force series. This story was a complete experiment. Could I write an MWD into the center of the story and the center of the romance? I could go on for pages about these dogs because they’re simply that amazing. So I’ll restrain myself, mostly. I will say that there are several qu