The Chain (The Kinship Series)

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 expos© 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.