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

Virginia pulled into the parking lot, and Mac was heartened to see it was almost full. People were streaming into Walker’s, the only funeral home in town. “So you finally gonna settle down with a fella?” She put the car in park and lit another cigarette. “It’s about time. You’re not gettin’ any younger, son!”


“Oh, I don’t know, Aunt Virginia.”


“What do you mean, you don’t know? Grace and I have been wondering why you’ve never found anybody to love. Nice-looking boy like you with so much to offer.”


“Thanks. I said I don’t know because I think I might come back here.”


Virginia swiveled her head to look at him. “Why on earth would you wanna do that?”


Chapter 66