Home is Where the Bark Is by Stella St. Claire

He hadn’t anticipated the appointment beforehand though he hadn’t anticipated Edna’s death either.

Waiting with bruised ribs seemed to make time move more slowly. He checked his cell phone to see how late his client was and saw that their appointed meeting time had not passed yet. You couldn’t rent out buildings and homes without things getting personal. He’d narrowly avoided some fists in the past. Not that there hadn’t been some close calls. He scanned his memory and tried to think of another time that he’d been hit in the face. It was the type of day where you felt like you got punched in the face, but of course, he’d actually been punched, so it felt much worse. He held back a sigh of exasperation as he considered whether or not it was going to start to rain. Looking at his cell phone wouldn’t have quite the same effect and looking at his wrist with no watch there would just look comical. He wished people didn’t need such pointed reminders that his time was valuable, but it seemed like this person did.

He wished he could be looking at it when the person who was making him wait arrived.

Lee Hunter wished he was wearing a watch. (Paws Fur Play Mysteries Series Book One) Together they must find the real murderer and get construction back underway before both of their businesses go bottom up.īut as they follow the trail of town gossip, Willow and Griffin discover more buried secrets than they first thought, and time is running out to solve this murder before they lose everything. With his funds frozen, and with no way to return Willow’s money, contractor Griffin Maynard has no choice but to join forces with his high school crush who also happens to be his current client-new arrival Willow Wells. That is until the first day of excavation uncovers a dead local real estate mogul, and pins her current contractor as the lead suspect. After a divorce that left her a dog trainer with no dogs to train, inheriting her Aunt’s property (complete with a downtrodden dog gym) seemed like the answer to her prayers. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.Īll Willow Wells wanted was a fresh start. Published in the United Kingdom by Relay Publishing. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales, is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of imagination or are used fictitiously.

Home is Where the Bark Is by Stella St. Claire