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

Phineas rolled his eyes. “I mean with Luz.”


Mac looked down at the dog. She’d been looking at him, but when he directed his gaze at her, she turned her head, as though bored. There was something cold about the dog, which Mac had always found strange, since he loved most dogs. He knew people found Luz ugly. She was, after all, hairless, save for the Mohawk-like tuft at the top of her head and the matching one at the tip of her tail. In his unkindest moments, he’d always thought she had something of the oversized rodent about her.


But he’d never found her ugly, at least not on the outside. Yet in the short time he’d been together with her master, she’d never warmed to him. She would leave the room when he came over. If he offered her a treat from his hand, no matter what it was, she would haughtily do the head-turning thing, disdainful, that she’d perfected.


Chapter 35