Ellie Anderson has a philosophy that works: don’t let people in because they leave anyway. Work fills the emptiness. Her sister’s matchmaking attempts are easy to deflect. The system is solid.
Then a brown-eyed Border Terrier named Charlie needs a home and Ellie’s defenses, which work fine against humans, don’t work against dogs. She opens the door.
Emily Carson has also fallen for Charlie. She’s not stepping aside. What starts as two women arguing over custody of a dog becomes something neither of them planned for—the kind of thing that sneaks in sideways because you’re too distracted fighting about something else to notice it arriving.
Van Munster keeps the setup light but doesn’t let it stay there. Charlie is the mechanism, not the destination. The real subject is Ellie—a woman who decided love wasn’t worth the risk of being left, being proven wrong in small increments. By Emily showing up. By Emily refusing to leave. By the basic fact that sometimes people stay, and sometimes that changes everything.
The dog is how it happens. But the dog isn’t what matters.
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| ISBN: 9783955331443 |
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| Genre: Romance |
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| Publication Date: 2013-12-29 |
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| Publisher: Ylva Verlag e.Kfr. |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 184 |
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| Book_ID: 106024 |