Colorado K-9 Unit (Jodie Bailey) Books in Order

Colorado K-9 Unit is a shared romantic-suspense series that sends officers and their dogs into dangerous cases across Colorado's ranches, small towns, and rough backcountry. The team faces crimes that put vulnerable people at risk, with the dogs providing trained help when a human lead runs out.

Protecting a child changes everything.

Jodie Bailey's Protecting the Baby is the fourth book. K-9 Officer Eli Blackwood discovers an intruder on his ranch and quickly learns that his neighbor, veterinarian Carly Mayor, and the infant in her care are being targeted. Carly has become guardian to baby Ariel after the child's parents died under troubling circumstances.

Eli takes Carly and Ariel off the grid to his grandfather's cabin, but hiding is only a temporary answer. Gunmen pursue them through the Colorado wilderness while Eli and Carly try to uncover why someone wants the baby and whether the deaths of Ariel's parents hold the key.

The series uses its Colorado setting to increase the tension. A remote cabin can offer safety, until it becomes a trap. Wide terrain can help someone disappear, but it can also make every pursuit longer and more dangerous. Eli's K-9 training and instincts are crucial as the threats close in.

Across the larger sequence, the unit's members take on searches, abductions, criminal conspiracies, and cases involving families in crisis. The dogs are active working partners, trained for the jobs their handlers cannot do alone. Their presence brings both practical skill and a strong bond of loyalty.

Readers who enjoy protective heroes, capable heroines, and child-in-danger mysteries will find Protecting the Baby a natural entry point. It can be read as a complete story, while the rest of Colorado K-9 Unit offers more cases and partnerships from the same team.