Standalone Romance and Book Club Fiction

Rescue Me ​Series, Books 1-7

​Love stories set around the High Grove Animal Shelter

Bigger Than Us - ​Coming July 1!

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Maddie Trudeau’s world is turned upside down when Landon Baxter—the impulsive husband she’s on the brink of divorcing—dies in a mountain-biking accident. Needing help raising her five-year-old twins, she moves in with her free-spirited mother and her newly rescued Great Pyrenees. Maddie’s world is rocked even more when a young woman shows up at their door with shocking ties to her late husband.

Jordan Hill isn’t one to ask for favors. Her own family never did her any, so she can see no reason to wish for kindness from a stranger. Yet, she’s certain Maddie is the one person she needs in her life above all others right now.

Noel Ward hopes to be the refuge and support Maddie and her children need at this tumultuous time, but he was Landon’s best friend and, inadvertently, a long-ago source of a broken heart for Maddie. It’s a fool’s hope that she’d open her heart to him a second time, but a fool’s hope is better than none.

Amid all the chaos, Maddie faces an unprecedented battle to carve out a new life on her own terms, but if she can do it, she might just realize that sometimes life’s detours lead you right where you’re supposed to be.

Home Is Where Your Bark Is - ​Now Available!

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Jenna Dunning’s and Jake Stile’s worlds collide with a bang thanks in part to a charismatic border collie named Seven. To stop the six-time shelter surrender from another drop off, Jake commits to fostering him. With Jake’s busy lifestyle, he’ll need Jenna’s help if he's going to have any success with the high energy dog.

As they work together, Jake’s and Jenna’s mutual attraction grows, but when Seven goes missing in a St. Patty’s Day snowstorm in Chicago, their budding relationship is put to the test. For all three, finding their way together again will require a whole lot of trust, a heap of faith, and embracing the idea of what they can be together, if only they’ll let themselves.

Summer by the River

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Making a new start in a new part of the country is particularly challenging for a single mom. Fortunately for 27-year-old Josie Waterhill, fate led her to Galena, Illinois where she and her six-year-old daughter, Zoe, moved into a historic mansion that operates as a tea house. When 34-year-old journalist Carter O'Brien comes to stay at the mansion while researching his next story, Josie isn't sure what to think of this charming stranger or the 110-pound dog he rescues.

Carter's curiosity about Josie deepens and he inadvertently stirs up trouble when he learns things about Josie and her daughter that she would rather not have brought to light. Ready or not, Josie has to let go of her painful past so she can create a glorious future.

You're My Home - Now Available

Rescue Me Book 7
When Riley Leighton and Levi Duncan meet again after years apart, they find to their mutual surprise, that the chemistry between them is as hot as ever. But as much as Levi has missed Riley all these years, he still remembers the heartbreak she caused when she left him the first time...

Riley wants to open her heart again, but she's spent a lifetime running from love. Now that she has another chance to get it right with Levi and an opportunity at the job of a lifetime at the local pet rescue, everything Riley's wanted but thought she couldn't have is within reach, if she can show Levi that she can call anyplace home, as long as he's by her side.

To Be Loved By You

Rescue Me Book 6
Jeremy Washington couldn't be happier running his own therapy program for at-risk teens. Between weekend service projects and hanging out with his faithful rescue dog, Rolo, Jeremy doesn't have time to date—which is fine with him considering the mess his early marriage turned out to be. The only thing he needs now is a new project for the kids in his program, and the High Grove Animal Shelter has the perfect opportunity—a group of dogs and puppies needing foster care.

At the rescue site, Jeremy meets Ava Graham, a yoga teacher looking to expand her practice. Jeremy thinks the kids would really benefit from learning yoga, and Ava's the perfect person to help—maybe too perfect. Ava's beautiful, talented, and funny—and she has the biggest heart Jeremy has seen in a long time. But can Ava convince him that mixing business and pleasure could be the key to rescuing his heart?

Head Over Paws

Rescue Me Book 5
Olivia Graham isn’t in a position to have a dog of her own, but her new position as a volunteer rescue driver for the local animal shelter will keep her close to her four-legged friends. When she’s called to transport dogs and cats that have been misplaced by flooding, she doesn’t hesitate to help, but her aging car isn’t as reliable as she is…
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She’s picked up by veterinarian Gabe Wentworth, former EMT and firefighter, who’s also heading to the rescue site. After a bad breakup, Gabe has embraced the hermit life. But when he meets Olivia, he can’t deny their irresistible mutual attraction, and his first thought is to run the other direction. But the more he learns about the woman who would risk everything to save vulnerable animals, the more he realizes what he might be willing to risk. As he and Olivia work together, it’s clear his loyal dog Samson is just as taken with her as he is, and Samson has never led him astray…but is Gabe really ready to risk his heart again?

Love at First Bark

Rescue Me Book 4
Animal portrait painter Mia Chambers and architect Ben Thomas have volunteered at the High Grove Animal Shelter for years, and they share a complicated history. Ben has secretly loved Mia all this time, but she was married to his best friend. Now she's newly widowed, with a young son, and Ben doesn't know how to tell her what's in his heart. All he can do is stay close, help her as much as she'll let him, and watch for the right moment to bare his soul.
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When a dozen adorable border collies get dumped in St. Louis' biggest park, everyone at the shelter mobilizes for a large-scale rescue. Rushing to the park to round up the frisky collies, Ben and Mia unexpectedly plunge into a new phase of their entangled lives. Who knew that opening their hearts and homes―to animals in need and to each other―would lead to so many upheavals...and new beginnings...?

My Forever Home 

Rescue Me Book 3
Vet school drop-out Tess Grasso dreams of having her own pet therapy business, but she meets one disastrous obstacle after another. There's no denying she has a way with animals, so in the meantime she puts her skills to use at a local no-kill shelter. Between helping her furry companions and a budding relationship with fellow dog lover Mason Redding, Tess begins to find fresh confidence...
What Tess doesn't know is that Mason is recovering from an accident, hoping to get back to his pro-baseball career. He's afraid the truth will ruin everything-and he's right. But in the midst of hurt and betrayal, a free-spirited stray Husky enters their lives, and teaches them a few things about faith, love and forgiveness.

Sit, Stay, Love

Rescue Me Book 2
​For devoted no-kill shelter worker Kelsey Sutton, rehabbing a group of rescue dogs is a welcome challenge. Working with a sexy ex-military dog handler who needs some TLC himself? That's a different story.

Kurt Crawford keeps his heart locked away from everyone. Well, everyone except the dogs who need his help...and always have his back. But as Kurt gets to know the compassionate, beautiful woman he's been assigned to work with, he can't help but feel a little puppy love...

A New Leash on Love

Rescue Me Book 1
​When Craig Williams draws the short straw and has to take his daughter’s adorable new puppy to a shelter after the holidays, it’s just another painful episode in the fall-out of a miserable divorce. He needs to pick up the pieces of his life, and, after a fiery confrontation with Megan Anderson, the young woman running the shelter, he wants to put the whole episode behind him. However, when he keeps finding new ways to reconnect with her, he realizes Megan’s compassionate and caring nature just might be the perfect salve for his broken heart.