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

“People don’t do that anymore, Dee.”


Mac started from the room, and Dee called after him, “Well, make sure you bring that pup in to see me next time he’s over here.”


Mac took the stairs two at a time. He couldn’t wait to see Barley again.10


Flynn missed the opening night of a show downtown at the 5thAvenue just so he could accommodate Mac on this unseasonably cool Tuesday night. He’d been surprised when Mac texted him late on Sunday, asking if he and the dog would be free Tuesday for an excursion over to the dog park in Woodland Park, adjacent to Green Lake.


Chapter 36