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

Olive had slept with Mac every night until she’d passed away peacefully one of those nights in her sleep.


And here was Grandma much later on a Christmas morning, opening all the Seattle-themed gifts he’d bought her the first Christmas he came back after moving to the Pacific Northwest. She’d made all kinds of approving noises about the hooded Seahawks sweatshirt, the Beecher’s cheese assortment, the Starbucks coffee mug that Mac had been delighted to find had been made just one town over in East Liverpool, Ohio, and the box of Fran’s dark chocolate caramels with sea salt. The candy, especially, had been an extravagance he couldn’t afford, but he knew he’d get as much joy—if not more—from watching her open the surprises as she would.


Chapter 62