Masada's Mission

Masada, a bumbling golden retriever puppy, struggles through eighteen months of training to become a lifeline for a veteran with PTSD. As part of her training, the puppy is assigned to prison life, where she matures and adapts to the cold concrete life of confinement and experiences hair-raising risks, tension, and the ache of loneliness.She forms unusual bonds, first with Roy, her inmate trainer, and in the end, the total prison population as well. When she walks point for her veteran down the graduation aisle, an awe of respect silences the crowd Will the readers also be led down the wedding aisle? Brad and Judy, founders of theK9s for Warriors training facility, who have reunited after a forty-year separation, face monumental responsibilities that test their relationship as they try to build the dog-training program for veterans.A touching yet educational story, about the world of service dogs who save veteran lives.