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Previously Jessie the dog wasn't liked, however after she changed her behaviour, people asked her to find a missing child, which she did. Jessie was a hero! The villagers really like Jessie and she has lots of new wildlife friends too. They turn to Jessie to stop a new housing development from being built on the same farm with a camping field in a conservation area. Can she be their hero again? Jessie wants to help and tries her best to stop the housing development from being built. Can Jessie the dog stop diggers from ruining the countryside?

The Stanley Creek community, named for a gold prospector, began in the mid-1700s as one of the earliest settlements in Gaston County. Gold was mined in the area until the California Gold Rush. Among the prominent people visiting the area was André Michaux, botanist and adventurer, who discovered the tree he named Magnolia macrophylla. In 1860, the Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford Railroad came through the area on land owned by the Brevard family. Brevard's train depot was the primary rallying point for soldiers leaving for the Civil War and for sending supplies to troops. Around the end of the 1890s, Stanley Creek Cotton Mills was organized, beginning the textile era, which continued until 2000. Two Stanley men patented a dyeing machine, and Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company was born. Many of Stanley's men went to fight in the nation's wars, some losing their lives. Several athletes went on to major-league baseball, and a nationally recognized sculptor lived in Stanley.

The story unfolds with a desperate mother, a prominent physician, seeking answers about her missing daughter. Her quest leads her to a remote meeting that turns deadly when she is unexpectedly confronted with a gun. Dr. Meredith Ivanoff's tragic fate sets the stage for a gripping tale of mystery and loss, as the search for her daughter intertwines with the circumstances surrounding her own demise.

Paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 47. Fully illustrated with pen& ink sketches by A. R. Quinton