Risky Passion by Kendall Talbot

She fights for justice. He searches for answers.
But digging into a dark past might bury them both.

Spirited Border Force pilot, Tory Armstrong’s routine patrol becomes lethal when her surveillance captures a suspicious vessel and gunfire takes her down. Forced to crash-land in mangrove-choked waters—the same dark stretch where trafficking victims were recently discovered—she runs for her life.
At the derelict Angelsong Orphanage nearby, seasoned K9 Special Ops commander Jaxson Callahan and his German Shepherd, Onyx, abandon their grim discovery of hidden graves to rescue Tory. The treacherous swampland she crashed into harbors predators far deadlier than its crocodiles and snakes.
Racing against armed pursuers, Tory and Jaxson piece together decades of calculated brutality, and a chilling pattern emerges: every thread leads back to Angelsong, the orphanage shut down in the 1980’s amid whispers of unimaginable horrors. For Jaxson, whose teenage sister vanished fifteen years ago, the case becomes personal. But even more disturbing, every clue points to the mastermind being someone within their circle—someone with enough power to make witnesses vanish.
With enemies closing in and no idea who to trust, Tory joins forces with Jaxson and his triplet brothers—all leaders in law enforcement—to expose a conspiracy snaking through the highest ranks before they too are permanently silenced.