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

Mac, who had been lying in his plaid boxers, sighed and made himself hunt through his drawers for something to put on. He knew Phineas would have turned up his nose at the jeans and tank top Mac wore earlier. Phineas turned his nose up at a lot of things Mac did—his job, his lack of education, his housing, even his dog. A beagle? Really?How common!


Well, at least the last obstacle had been removed from Phineas’s disdain.


Mac slid into a pair of khaki shorts and pulled a hunter-green Izod shirt over his head. There were some Keen sandals under his bed, and he slid his feet into those. He checked himself out in the full-length mirror hanging on the back of his door and wasn’t unimpressed at the young guy looking back at him. Phineas should have been counting his lucky stars to have him instead of constantly criticizing him.


Chapter 34