Lucky Dog Rescue Series by Mimi Kinley

GraceTwo years post heartbreak I’m still terrified of taking a chance at love again. I have an amazing job as a seventh-grade teacher, good friends and family, an overflowing tablet full of smutty romance, and that’s enough for me. My friends call it boring. I call it safe.That all changes the moment I step into Lucky Dog Rescue to set up a service learning project for my students and meet Bennett Benson. He’s gorgeous, funny, kind, and amazing with my students... moreGraceTwo years post heartbreak I’m still terrified of taking a chance at love again. I have an amazing job as a seventh-grade teacher, good friends and family, an overflowing tablet full of smutty romance, and that’s enough for me. My friends call it boring. I call it safe.That all changes the moment I step into Lucky Dog Rescue to set up a service learning project for my students and meet Bennett Benson. He’s gorgeous, funny, kind, and amazing with my students. Just the type of guy that seems worth risking it all for. The electricity that snaps between us has me saying yes before I can think it through. I have no idea if my heart will survive this. But I do know that my friends are right—it’s time for a little fun. BennettI haven’t had many serious romances in my life. Mostly because I’ve been focused on my work as the education and outreach manager at Lucky Dog Rescue—the shelter I run with my two best friends. It also doesn’t help that I’ve never found a woman that made me think of the future.Until I meet Grace Mills.The second I see her waiting for me in that pink dress, supple curves, long hair I can’t wait to fist—I know there’s something special about her and I’ll bet everything I own that she’s the one for me. I’ll wait as long as it takes for her to see it too. less

BriaAgreeing to pose as my date’s fiancé for their brother’s wedding isn’t something I’ve ever done before—or even imagined—but my sense of adventure has me saying yes before my brain can overrule my mouth. It doesn’t hurt that said fake fiancé is hot as Hades, either.After all, I’ve spent my whole life bouncing from one thing to the next, ready for new adventures, moving on before things get serious. What could possibly be different this time?The answer—Evan... moreBriaAgreeing to pose as my date’s fiancé for their brother’s wedding isn’t something I’ve ever done before—or even imagined—but my sense of adventure has me saying yes before my brain can overrule my mouth. It doesn’t hurt that said fake fiancé is hot as Hades, either.After all, I’ve spent my whole life bouncing from one thing to the next, ready for new adventures, moving on before things get serious. What could possibly be different this time?The answer—Evan. He’s kind and fun and fills me up in a way I’ve never experienced. All it takes is a week to change me forever and now that I have a ring on my finger—fake or not—I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to let him go. EvanI’ve never done anything as crazy as asking Bria to pose as my fake fiancé for my brother’s wedding. I’m a pretty down-to-earth, risk-averse kind of guy, but I’ll do anything to keep my mother from having a meltdown at Ethan’s ceremony. Even if it means taking a chance at getting caught. Even if it means accidently falling for a woman who’s not even mine. By the time the wedding is over, I’ll do anything to make sure she feels the same. less

JessI love my job at Lucky Dog Rescue. I love being the first caring face some of our animals have ever seen and I love helping them find their forever families. I even love working for my brother for the most part. It’s James, our financial executive, that I could do without. Handsome, intelligent, funny, kind—he’s everything I’ve ever wanted. From the moment I laid eyes on him three years ago, I was in love... moreJessI love my job at Lucky Dog Rescue. I love being the first caring face some of our animals have ever seen and I love helping them find their forever families. I even love working for my brother for the most part. It’s James, our financial executive, that I could do without. Handsome, intelligent, funny, kind—he’s everything I’ve ever wanted. From the moment I laid eyes on him three years ago, I was in love. Until he stood me up on our first date and left me waiting alone for three soul-sucking hours only to treat me as if I ditched him the next week at work.For three years we’ve been angry at each other, each day more intense than the day before until it explodes in our face and I find out that maybe, just maybe, I’ve been wrong all this time. And that if I’m very lucky, I’ll get the happy ending I’ve been dreaming about.JamesI’ve been head over heels in love with Jess since the moment my slightly scary best friend Evan introduced us. It took every nerve in my body to ask out his sister and when she canceled on me at the last minute, it felt like a rug had been pulled out from underneath me.Since then, she’s treated me like I’m the shithead that ditched her and we spend most of our time trying to out-irritate the other. Not a day passes, though, that I don’t think about holding her, kissing her, telling her how I really feel. When I find out what we’ve believed all these years might not be true, a dam breaks, and there is nothing in this world that will keep me away from giving her the happy ending she wants. less