A beguiling story showcasing the eternal power of a dog's loyalty and love.

Thirteen-year-old Kaycee is devastated when her father dies in a car crash shortly after her mother is institutionalized for mental illness. Torn away from the only life she's known, she moves in with her cantankerous grandfather in rural Colorado.

Meanwhile, Kaycee's deceased father, Rick, watches over his daughter from the borderland between heaven and hell as he awaits his own final judgement. Pets that were once a part of his life are alongside him in his journey, a welcome comfort, yet there for a purpose he cannot fathom.

Hank, Rick's father, is a reclusive widower who struggles with raising a bereaved teen, so in an effort to reach his dejected granddaughter he gives her a black German shepherd puppy named Jet.

Lynette Chilcoat's debut novel is a beguiling story showcasing the eternal power of a dog's loyalty and love. Tied together through the captivating behavior of pets both past and present, the intertwining stories of each family member in A Shade Deeper than Midnight chronicles how they face their own sorrow, anger and fear in order to move into a place of hope.