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

“He’s probably, in my opinion, one of the best and most underrated novelists of the twentieth century. Try In a Shallow Grave. I guarantee it will blow you away.” Mac took a sip of his coffee. “His voice has a real gothic feel to it, and his stories, like O’Connor’s, revolve around warped people looking for love or redemption.”


Flynn sighed and without thinking, said, “Aren’t we all?”


Mac considered him for a moment but said nothing. He went on. “And I love Truman Capote. I only wish he’d written more.”


Here was an admission that made Flynn go hmmto himself. Sure, you didn’t have to be gay to like gay writers, but Capote was one of the most flamboyant. “You mean like In Cold Blood?” The true-crime novel was the only one Flynn was familiar with.


Chapter 29