Wilson, Susan

Adam March, a career-focused businessman, loses the wife and child he never had time for--along with his job--and begins bussing tables in a homeless shelter, but when he meets Chance, a stray dog who managed to escape the dog-fighting ring, both man and canine will get a second opportunity at a life with love.

Contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast, " in which artist Alix Miller meets and falls in love with mystery writer Leland Crompton, a man who has withdrawn from the world due to a rare genetic disease that has left him disfigured.

The sheep dog Mack is the only constant in his owner Justine Mead's life, and when she travels back to her childhood home Mack is lost and then found by the couple Alice and Ed Parmalee who are mourning the death of their daughter.