On a bright autumn day, Flynn Marlowe lost his best friend, a beagle named Barley, while out on a hike in Seattle’s Discovery Park. On a cold winter day, Mac Bowersox found his best friend, a lost, scared, and emaciated beagle, on the streets of Seattle. Two men. One dog. When Flynn and Mac meet by chance in a park the next summer, there’s a problem -- who does Barley really belong to? Flynn wants him back, but he can see that Mac rescued him and loves him just as much as he does. Mac wants to keep the dog, and he can imagine how heartbreaking losing him would be -- but that's just what Flynn experienced. A “shared custody” compromise might be just the way to work things out. But will the arrangement be successful? Mac and Flynn are willing to try it ... and along the way, they just might fall in love.

Lost and Found

“I’m not going to intimidate him. I’m just going to make him see right from wrong.” She paused. “That is, after I determine that you’re right.”


Flynn’s mouth dropped open. “You think I’m mistaken?”


“I don’t think anything, sweetheart. But I was with you at the shelter when you first got the little guy. I went to PetSmart with you for half the Saturdays when he had obedience training. When you wanted to run off for the weekend to Portland with that drummer from the punk rock band, I took care of him. Iwill know if this is our dog—or not.”


Clara grinned. “I love him like my own.”


Chapter 14