Debut Novel, Coming December 2024
Campbell Russell has been grounded by a psychotic doberman. A hobbyist pilot, he used to spend weekends literally flying from one woman to another, but now he’s stuck at home caring for the dog his friend Opal left him when she suddenly died. With Opal gone, Cam has no one to call when he needs to talk, but he does have a seventy pound canine wrecking ball in his apartment. When a dumb mistake sends him running to the local animal hospital, he meets Elodie: funny, quick-witted and extroverted, she offers Cam a lifeline that he can’t say no to.
Elodie is happy to help the grieving, overwhelmed doberman named Mango and the matching human at the other end of the leash. She quickly finds Cam and Mango part of her daily routine: comparing dates, therapy notes and snarky jokes. She knows the score: Cam is just another guy who doesn’t perceive her as a dateable because she’s fat. But without the pressure of dating, Elodie can be herself and confide in Cam in a way she doesn’t with her other friends as she stumbles through dating apps.
As Elodie helps Cam get ahold of his new life with misunderstood Mango, he has to face hard truths. He’s spent his whole life thinking he should be attracted to one type of woman, when he can’t stop thinking about Elodie’s curves. Elodie can’t trust someone smaller than her. They’ll have to get past their old ideas of who they should want and who will want them in order to leash themselves to one another.