Phantom: Queen of the Road is based on a true story of how an abandoned German shepherd was rescued after living in the wild for over a year.
It’s a modern-day myth that happens to be true. It’s a story in which strangers leave food and blankets for a dog no one can catch, and how traveler's on a state highway reach out to help one solitary, beautiful animal survive one of Iowa’s coldest and longest winters.
This first book in the Phantom series, tells the true story of how Phantom was saved from a "shoot-to-kill" order. In a fast-paced adventure series, with a thoughtful mixture of fact and fiction, the additional books in the series tell the stories of the brave and resourceful dog that took shelter under a highway bridge, and became known as the phantom dog of Clay County.
No one knows exactly where, when or why the phantom dog was left alone, abandoned without food or water, to survive the elements in an area of the Midwest where temperatures can often drop to 30 degrees below zero.
Without the kindness and compassion of Highway 71 commuters and local residents, the dog would not have made it through the winter 2009-2010, which was one of the worst in Iowa history.
A short memoir, but yet a heartwarming story of how the dog was rescued from the wild.