This is the third book in the Spirit Dogs Trilogy. The group of five dogs is back on Earth, living in the same neighborhood. Ivan is destined to become a search and rescue dog of such magnitude that he will take the leadership position in Dog Heaven. He and his neighbor dogs find themselves once again facing the evil forces that they encountered in the form of Garmr, the leader of Dog Hell in Spirit Dogs: Life Between Lives. Readers follow Ivan's adventures with the reincarnated dog spirits that he grew to love in Dog Heaven as they, together, face an abusive father in one dog's home and...

Winner of the Gold Honoree Award Mom's Choice Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction This story continues where Spirit Dogs: Heroes In Heaven left off, with Ivan in Dog Heaven, fraught with despair at being separated from his beloved Sarah-until he is put in charge of five new arrivals and discovers that he can visit Sarah whenever he chooses. Thus begins Ivan's adventure as a leader of a group and a huge sense of self-doubt that causes him to be sent on two dangerous missions to Dog Hell. The group's purpose, together, is to discover what it means to be a "whole dog," what they learned in their...