Bulldogs
Book Details
Author(s)Catherine Lamont
PublisherHigh Five New Media
ISBN / ASINB006RW125M
ISBN-13978B006RW1256
Sales Rank1,218,829
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Maya Whitmore is forced to abandon job, boyfriend, and happy Ohio lifestyle when her county bans ownership of pit bulls. She has five of them. They haven’t killed or even threatened anyone, but the authorities say they have to go. Maya and her dogs head north to Michigan to start a new life, where her dog-loving friend, Emmy Davison, has found them a rental house in a scary neighborhood.
It’s not the first time Maya has tried to leave trouble behind. She has a terrible secret. She has spent her adult life hiding behind a curtain of normalcy, until the uncertainties of change force her to confront the demons of her past.
In their own peculiar way, Maya’s new neighbors are warm and helpful. She feels at home with them and with her other new friend, a dog trainer and former dancer from Key West whose name is sometimes Conrad Hamilton and sometimes Patience N’Amour.
Maya and her dogs have barely settled into their rundown shack when animal rights extremists sabotage a dog show. Shortly afterwards an acquaintance of Maya’s and Emmy’s succumbs to a killer with a quirky MO. The victim leaves behind forty miniature schnauzers locked in crates. They are taken in by the local humane society, whose director has ambitious plans for them – plans unrelated to their welfare.
As a volunteer at the shelter, Emmy soon finds herself enmeshed in its shady undertakings, while Maya falls under scrutiny of two detectives investigating a murder. And let’s not forget those dogs of hers. They are targeted as well – by the law, the shelter, and a national animal rights organization. Before the truth is finally revealed, the lives of human and canine alike are in danger, and it’s not at all clear who can save them.
It’s not the first time Maya has tried to leave trouble behind. She has a terrible secret. She has spent her adult life hiding behind a curtain of normalcy, until the uncertainties of change force her to confront the demons of her past.
In their own peculiar way, Maya’s new neighbors are warm and helpful. She feels at home with them and with her other new friend, a dog trainer and former dancer from Key West whose name is sometimes Conrad Hamilton and sometimes Patience N’Amour.
Maya and her dogs have barely settled into their rundown shack when animal rights extremists sabotage a dog show. Shortly afterwards an acquaintance of Maya’s and Emmy’s succumbs to a killer with a quirky MO. The victim leaves behind forty miniature schnauzers locked in crates. They are taken in by the local humane society, whose director has ambitious plans for them – plans unrelated to their welfare.
As a volunteer at the shelter, Emmy soon finds herself enmeshed in its shady undertakings, while Maya falls under scrutiny of two detectives investigating a murder. And let’s not forget those dogs of hers. They are targeted as well – by the law, the shelter, and a national animal rights organization. Before the truth is finally revealed, the lives of human and canine alike are in danger, and it’s not at all clear who can save them.
