On this small lump of rock in the Salish Sea, everyone is connected.
Everyone has a story to tell.
Somehow, Looser Islanders must find a way to bring their stories together, to solve the mystery of the disappearing dogs.
If only the humans had a dog’s nose, a dog’s unerring sense of how to find what’s lost, and heal aching hearts.
Maybe it’s not too late to learn.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introducing Missy and her Hairy Horde. Because sometimes it takes an outsider to see what the insiders are missing.
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Like Anne of Green Gables, Geena has always lived with her head in the clouds. When life gets tough, it might be time to come back to earth.
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TeeKay’s childhood left her committed to one thing: pleasing everyone. All the time. When her sweet Mazie-dog is threatened, she finds strength she didn’t know she had, and sends her past running for the hills.
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Seven children, dogs, cats, goats, one white rat, and a lizard named Storm. Caroline and Ben have their hands full caring for children and animals and running an inn and a part-time veterinarian practice. It all begins to feel like too much, until the disappearances remind them of what truly matters in their wild and crazy island life.
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Sylvia the cat thinks she’s a dog. That’s fine with Amelia, until the dogs start disappearing.
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On the surface, Jack and Jill are the perfect couple. Nursery-rhyme perfect. When the Looser Island community begins to unravel, so does their perfect relationship.
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Retha doesn’t like change. All she wants is nights running Retha’s Bar and Grill, and days with her dog Charlie. When her cousin on the mainland tells her he’s dying, and she goes off island to be with him in hospice, it feels like nothing will ever be right again.
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Frank and Kasumi have created happiness for themselves, in spite of prejudice and hardship. When Kasumi is diagnosed with cancer, everything begins to unravel, and Frank is determined to put it right. By any means necessary.
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Missy and the other Islanders discover that when it looks like a door is closing, sometimes it’s opening . . .
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(Extra story) Island curmudgeon Jens Jensen’s had his heart broken one too many times, and he’s done with it all - love, laughter, life. Except it turns out there’s still a spark of tenderness at the core. The Gentle Sex
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Seth is everything to Jenny, and gangly behemoth Jerry Garcia is everything to Seth. But a child is never really his mother’s to keep, and, like all dogs, Jerry Garcia was only theirs for a while.
Staying Put
As each new chapter is posted, a link will be added to the section. Don’t see a link? That means the chapter hasn’t been posted yet. (Post September 2022, all chapters except the first have been taken down. Stay tuned for more Dogs….)
