The Chain (The Kinship Series) (Volume 1)

Jude Brannock, a seasoned and passionate animal welfare investigator, is drawn into the lives of a damaged family in a small town that depends on a meat packing plant for its survival. Jude has been summoned to Bragg Falls to meet with a whistleblower who has documented the dangerous conditions for workers and the brutal treatment of pigs about to be slaughtered at D&M Processing. But when she arrives, she finds that her contact has committed suicide and the video he made is gone. The deeper she probes, the more the town’s residents turn against her – afraid that an exposé will shut down the plant. But beyond the local resistance, there is a more sinister force that will do anything to hide what is happening behind the secretive doors of the slaughterhouse.