This is Book two in the Jake Dupree saga. Rivah Dawg is a quirky character-driven drama with action, humor and romance that is a continuation of the Green Dawg story. It is about cops, but they are not typical police officers. They are the specialized police officers that patrol the woods and waters that go by the title of game wardens or conservation police officers. Officer Jake Dupree's run of rough times has continued. He has made the transition and found his way as a Virginia State Game Warden. He thought he had found the woman of his dreams, one Lydia Lightfoot, only to have her disappear. At the end of Green Dawg his world is turned upside down again when Lydia reappears and turns out to be a FBI agent who had been deceiving him. His field training officer, turned friend and mentor, is gunned down in front of him. Rivah Dawg picks up where Green Dawg left off. Other changes for Jake's work area are on the horizon as well. A new warden will be transferring in from another work area. The only constant is the serial killer they have come to know as the "Hangman". The death toll is rising and he has to be stopped. And then there is that damned cat.