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

“What? And you thought because I liked Truman Capote and Breakfast at Tiffany’sI have to be a big old queen?”


Mac threw back his head and laughed, so loud and hard that Barley paused from licking his own balls to look up at him and cock his head in wonder. He barked a couple of times. Or maybe he was laughing too.


Flynn felt familiar heat rise to his face. Now you’ve stepped in it…


It took more than a minute or so for Mac to rein in his laughter. When the chuckles and guffaws slowed to a trickle, he wiped his eyes and gave a little cough. He then turned completely serious. He looked Flynn in the eye. “You mean you didn’t know? It wasn’t obvious?”


Flynn wasn’t sure what to think here. Was his leg being pulled? “Um, no, I wasn’t sure.”


Mac started laughing again. And again, abruptly stopped. “I just assumed everybody could tell, everybody with an ounce of gaydar, that is. I was wondering about you.”


Chapter 30