Paws in the City
This is the rom-com series Carrie Bradshaw would have written if she were a dog person.
1. THE DACHSHUND WEARS PRADA by Stefanie London
SYNOPSIS
How do you start over when the biggest mistake of your life has more than one million views?
Forget diamondsβthe internet is forever. Social media consultant Isla Thompson learned that lesson the hard way when she went viral for all the wrong reasons. A month later, Isla is still having nightmares about the moment she ruined a young starletβs career and made herself the most unemployable influencer in Manhattan. But she doesnβt have the luxury of hiding until sheβs no longer Instagram poison. Not when her fourteen-year-old sister, Dani, needs Isla to keep a roof over their heads. So, she takes the first job she can get: caring for Camilla, a glossy-maned, foul-tempered hellhound.
After a week of ferrying Camilla from playdates to pet psychics, Isla starts to suspect that the dachshundβs bark is worse than her biteβjust like her owner, Theo Garrison. Isla has spent her career working to make people likable and hereβs Theoβhappy to hide behind his reputation as a brutish recluse. But Theo isnβt a bruteβheβs sweet and funny, and Isla should not see him as anything but the man who signs her paychecks. Because loving Theo would mean retreating to his world of secluded luxury, and Isla needs to show Dani that no matter the risk, dreams are always worth chasing.
2. PETS OF PARK AVENUE by Stefanie London
SYNOPSIS
What do you do when The One is also the one who broke your heart?
Self-proclaimed hot mess Scout Myers is determined to prove sheβs finally got her act together. Raised by grandparents who saw her as her wayward motherβs wayward daughter, Scoutβs used to being written off. So when the opportunity for a promotion arises at Paws in the City, the talent agency where she works, Scout is desperate to rise to the occasion. With shared custody of her little sister also on the line, Scout canβt afford a single mistakeβ¦ like suddenly needing a canine stand-in for an important photoshoot. Luckily (or not) she knows the owner of the perfect pup replacement: the estranged husband she walked out on years ago.
On the surface, it appears Lane Hallidayβs life has been blissfully drama free without Scout, but she suspects her handsome-as-ever not-quite-ex-husband doth protest too much. Working together even feels like old timesβexcept for all that lingering, unresolved tension. But Scoutβs not sure sheβs ready to confront the reasons she left Lane, and when she discovers his plans to finalize their divorce, everything suddenly feels very real, leaving Scout to wonder whether true love might be worth a little hot mess.