TOM CLAFFEY. Midnight. Sweetgrass Books. Trade paperback, 150 pages, $14.95, amazon.com
Forced off the road during a violent nighttime storm, big rig driver Kelsey Brannigan and her feisty mutt Max shelter beside an abandoned church in Taiban, New Mexico. Inside the church, Max discovers a victim of the storm—a raven with a broken wing. Kelsey names the injured bird Midnight and reaches out to Wildlife Rescue for help⎯and romance kindles between Kelsey and a rugged cowboy named Rick Delgado.