from Los Angeles, California
Leda, an Alsatian German Shepherd, was born in Germany on July 16, 2002. As a puppy, she was recruited to come to the United States for training and eventually to work as a patrol K-9 for the Los Angles Police Department. Her parents, grandparents and great grand parents were all exceptional, decorated police patrol K-9s in Germany. However, it was soon apparent that Leda had a problem – she was not cut out for the specific line of police work that she was bred for…chasing, flushing out and securing the bad skin-faces. While training at the LAPD K-9 Compound, Leda failed even the simplest of tests and soon became an undesirable for her specific line of police work as well as any possibility for her adoption out into society. Suddenly, there was a real risk that she would be euthanized.
Unsure of her fate, Leda escaped and lived on the streets and in the canyons of Los Angeles. In The K-9 Chronicles: Book Three, she chronicles her story – her selection from the litter of her brothers and sisters by an expert LAPD K-9 Trainer (boy, did he get this one wrong) to her arrival at the Los Angeles Police K-9 Academy to her escape from the possibility of being euthanized to her chance meeting up with Jake.
Read Leda’s story as she describes in her own words the challenges of failing to live up to expectations, a life of danger living without skin-faces for the first time ever and then learning how to dedicate herself to serve and protect others at all costs.
In addition, in this volume of The K-9 Chronicles, you will learn more about the skin-face, Jake, you read about in Books One and Two. You will learn about the events in his life that brought him to where you left him and Tomi at the end of Book Two. This is the third book in a series of six fictional books inspired by real-life K-9s and events in their lives that shaped who they have become.
(Please note that even if Leda’s book is not released in time for Book ‘Em, a complementary Chapter will be handed out at the Book Signing by her.)