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Home is Where the Bark is

Home is Where the Bark is, July 2010
by Kandy Shepherd

Berkley Sensation
Featuring: Serena Oakley; Nick Whalen
352 pages
ISBN: 0425234290
EAN: 9780425234297
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"Animal lovers will enjoy this lighthearted mystery."

Fresh Fiction Review

Home is Where the Bark is
Kandy Shepherd

Reviewed by Vicky Gilpin
Posted July 15, 2010

Romance Contemporary

Serena Oakley is hiding. However, she's not hiding for the reasons undercover investigator Nick Whalen thinks she is. After being in Australia for two years, Nick doesn't recognize the chocolate-dipped body with which most of America's red-blooded males dream of becoming more familiar. After her time as a model and dealing with personal traumas, Serena just wants to run Paws-A-While for pampered pooches. With a prop purse-dog in tow, Nick is having a hard time adjusting to the world of the indulged canine and refuses to be seen as a dog's "dad." Nick is on the scent of an identity theft scam, and he needs to know everything Serena's been hiding; meanwhile, Serena has a strong aversion to police officers or any take-charge men who might try to burst the fragile bubble of normalcy she's built with her animal daycare. However, between the feelings attempting to scale their mutual distrust, a fluffy Yorkie-poo named Bessie and a down-on-his-luck man's dog named Mack (not for the truck, but for his love of fast-food), Nick and Serena discover that trust isn't for the dogs. HOME IS WHERE THE BARK IS is a well-written light mystery with plenty of animal descriptions for animal-lovers.

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SUMMARY

From the author of the delightful Love is a Four-Legged Word comes another novel of romance, mystery, and dogs.

Former model Serena Oakley has opened Paws-A-While, a doggy daycare and spa in San Francisco. When a ruggedly handsome client walks in, holding a Yorki-Poo too dainty for his personality, Serena knows something's not right.

Undercover PI Nick Whalen has followed a series of identity frauds to Serena and is determined to dig up secrets he's certain she is hiding. Despite their mutual distrust, Nick and Serena find themselves bonding over an injured, orphaned dog. And soon they're arousing more than just suspicions. But will the pair trust in love enough to thwart a danger circling too close to home?


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