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

All this, Flynn thought, made an amazing contrast to his own darker coloring. He could just about picture them together. Naked.


Now stop it!Flynn mentally warned himself. You have no reason to think there’s any potential with this guy, because you don’t even know if he goes to your church. He’s manly as hell. He’s yet to mention Gaga, Garland, Streisand, or Cher.Flynn didn’t think he’d ever heard Mac use the word fabulous. Mac’s clothes were straight-boy boring yet oh so flattering in the way they revealed just enough skin to be tantalizing.


He looked over at Mac, glad he wasn’t trying to force conversation. Glad he couldn’t read minds. But Flynn wanted to know him better. Who knew? Maybe Mac would let slip a “fabulous” or a reference to Project Runwayand Flynn would have good cause to hope.


He laughed at himself internally for his lack of political correctness.


They’d made their way about a quarter around the lake when Flynn asked, “So how long have you lived in Seattle?”


Chapter 26