Crashing a ritzy party isn’t easy, especially for Bev Ryan, who prefers overalls to cocktail dresses, but she’ll do it for her dogs…even if it means taking on a hot, funny, and irritatingly stubborn business mogul. Determined to protect his loved ones, Mack Spenser has honed his workaholic tendencies to perfection. But when the charming dog evangelist targets his latest business deal, he suddenly … he suddenly finds his carefully constructed plans in chaos.
When a sizzling attraction blossoms between the two opposing forces, suddenly things get a lot more complicated.
Books in the Canine Cupids series (all books are standalones and can be read in any order):
Paws for a Kiss
Pawfectly in Love
Paws Up for Love
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe is “contemporary romance at its best” (Bex ‘N’ Books). She’s the author of more than forty-five novels, and she’s a four-time nominee for the RITA® award, the highest award in romance fiction. As an award-winning author, Stephanie has been touching readers’ hearts and keeping them spellbound for more than a decade with her contemporary romances, romantic suspense, and paranormal romances.
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Good easy read for dog lovers.
This book was a good read. The characters had a conflict. They went on to grow past that conflict and find happiness together. You could see them growing as people.
Cute fast read. Not my favorite by this author but a solid easy read for a plane ride or the beach.
Great for the hopeless romantic.
I always like a fast moving book. Read this one in about four days. Had believable characters and it is always great when a canine is in the mix.
I enjoyed this one a lot. I liked that the heroine wasn’t your standard beautiful princess with a fancy job.
Rescue animals adds to the nice story.
Sort of thought it was a little childish. Writing was level one on a 1-10 scale…
Really cute story
Good book to relax
This was a sweet book, especially if you are an animal lover.
“It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.” –Jenna Morasca
This is book one in the Canine Cupids Series and was a free offer on Amazon. I started this and managed to make it to about the 24% mark and had to put it down. It was stupid. The answer was staring them right in the face and they acted like it wasn’t a viable option. I’ve checked some of the reviews… it looks like they don’t figure it out until the end. I needed a break. Maybe I’ll come back to it.
Rating: MA: mature audience: language/profanity [mild], adult themes, explicit, graphic sex scenes
“When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. That dog is not judging you.” –Eckhart Tolle
I felt bad writing the above comments and started skimming… lawd! It only got worse. This girl had her confidence level set at naught with a rich guy sniffing after her [dog reference… get it??] and trying to get into her coveralls. The whole thing is one big cliché after another. If not for the MA rating, I’d label this as Young Adult.
At first, I was taken aback with the comments regarding weight. She had a low self-esteem about her appearance and she was a mess. She didn’t realize her own beauty and it just felt wrong when she kept putting herself down. On the other hand, the bad guy/villain Mr. Whittle, was described in negative terms and that seemed even more wrong. It was not necessary to use comments to demean or describe him. The authors list of adjectives included the following: waddled vs walked, sweaty palms, beaked nose, stale breath, yellow teeth, short beastly man, nasty little bald man, fat guy…etc. Really??? Why???
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” –Josh Billings
So, this girl Bev runs a dog shelter for, ‘losers’ as she calls them, dogs that need to be rehabilitated before they can be adopted out. She rents a warehouse and its adjacent lot and houses her shelter. She has been saving her money hoping to purchase the place but the owners needed money and had put it up for sale. That sounded like a big CLUE to me that the-building-is-for-sale… do something. Hello!! She was all mad when Mack, a real estate broker type or property acquisition agent, brought his client, a potential buyer, to see the property. She went all petulant and angry that Mack was being mean to her and her dogs. OMG!! I wanted to slit my own throat.
She did stupid things that would never fly in the business world, like telling lies [easily disproved] to the potential buyer that only infuriated him and was now making her a target. What??? Is this girl like 16-years-old or what? I hate TSTL [too stupid to live] women. She doesn’t have any business savvy or basic knowledge in how to run a business. How she became a non-profit is beyond me. Someone asked her for a business plan and she didn’t know what that was. Are you serious?? I believe you have to provide something like that when you apply for non-profit status. They are not going to hand it over without some knowledge of what you’re about.
For most of the story there was little to no romance… just a lot of hot panting for each other. Oh, yeah, there was that one scene where Mack nearly got in her pants… or coveralls. That upped the rating to MA: mature audience, yeah, it was very descriptive. But then she said no and he stopped. I figure it won’t be long before he was successful. If I continue reading… that is. And… I did… and he did. That pushed the rating into graphic and explicit. The ending was as predicted. The solution… again… as predicted. No epilogue, no explanations of threads left hanging. Dang!
Moved too slow.
This book kept me interested from start to finish.
Great read
I loved Pause for a Kiss by Stephanie Rowe. Billionaire estate mogul versus vet tech running an animal shelter. Are the animals going to be homeless because some bigwig wants to buy the animal shelter away from our poor vet tech?Animals, a love story, and happily ever after, what more can you ask for?
I liked that it included animals. It was a nice change.
Cute enough to buy others in series
for dog lovers anywhere
Great book I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next