under this unbroken sky by shandi mitchell

She fastened a line to his collar, and his tail hoisted higher. She unhitched the crate door and Zeus waited for her to indicate work or play. All that was needed to sustain them for a couple of days. She made a visual check of her search-and-rescue gear, first aid kits, rations, dog supplies, all-weather kit, boots, and backpack. Eager to be released, he stretched and pawed the latch. Kate swung open the jeep’s rear gate and was greeted by Zeus’s tail thumping against the wire crate. A storm is coming and nobody is prepared.

With a city prickling under a heat wave and a hurricane threatening to make landfall, these responders will be forced to make fateful choices that will alter lives. Tamara, an agoraphobic 911 dispatcher, who is trying her hardest to remain as calm and emotionless as an automated message, is propelled into the middle of a story that she can't avoid and must enter the world to find out how it ends. Respected police officer Mike is on the edge of burnout and sets himself on a downward spiral that may be impossible to break, fraying the bonds of love that hold his family together. Estranged from her troubled family, she must confront the fact that resolution may elude her forever. Tough-as-nails Kate, when she's not working with her beloved search-and-rescue dog, Zeus, is a trauma nurse who spends her off-duty hours trying to forget what she has seen.

Each is deeply devoted to what they do, but they are all beginning to crack under the immense pressures of their work. When tragedy erupts on a stifling summer night, three ordinary people, with the extraordinary jobs of rescuing strangers, are connected to one another in ways both explicit and invisible. When you spend your life saving others.who will be there to save you? “The most impressive trick of this book – and it is a very good one – is the way Mitchell pulls off a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is introspective.” - The Globe and Mail

Under this unbroken sky by shandi mitchell