Teacher's Pet
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A tale that will leave paw prints on your heart.
Welcome to the dog-friendly town of Dragonfly Cove, where you’ll find plenty of heartwarming moments that blend canine companionship into the everyday lives of ordinary people, to create extraordinary stories. If you loved books like Wish Me Home by Kay Bratt, the Hometown Harbor series by Tammy L. Grace, and the Guiding Emily series by Barbary Hinske, you will enjoy the books in the bestselling Dragonfly Cove Dog Park series; heartwarming stories of the dogs who rescue us!
Teacher’s Pet, by David Johnson, is the eighth book in the Dragonfly Cove Dog Park series.
Sadie is a bright-blonde Labrador puppy, content and happy to spend her days sleeping, eating, and playing with her seven siblings. But her world is turned upside down when she’s given to the oldest human she has ever met. Confused at first, she soon decides she’s supposed to watch out and take care of the human named Dorothy who proves to be quite a handful.
Dorothy is a sixty-six-year-old retired schoolteacher from Nashville, Tennessee, who has never been married but has nineteen children. At least, that’s what she tells everyone.
Dorothy and Sadie quickly bond with each other, leaving both feeling content. Things change, though, when Dorothy receives an unexpected letter in the mail, a letter she refuses to open for over a week because it’s from Harliss Abernathy, the man who left her standing at the altar fifty years ago.
In the midst of trying to decide what to do about the letter, a young woman, Hope Rodriguez, shows up with an ulterior motive. Try as she might, Dorothy tries to point Hope in a direction that will lead her away from her seedy-looking boyfriend, not knowing she’s putting herself at risk by doing so.
Will she open the letter? What does it say?
Will Hope Rodriguez harm Dorothy?
How will Sadie help Dorothy navigate these prickly situations?
Hurry and read Teacher’s Pet and be entertained by this warm-hearted drama.
The Dragonfly Cove Dog Park series is perfect for fans of women’s fiction who love stories that are as heartwarming as they are entertaining.
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Book 1: Pick of the Litter
Book 2: Collar Me Crazy by Kay Bratt
Book 3: Hearts Unleashed by Tammy L. Grace
Book 4: Back in the Pack by Barbara Hinske
Book 5: Loyal and True by Ev Bishop
Book 6: Coming Home to Heel by Jodi Allen Brice
Book 7: Unleashed Melody by Julie Carobini
Book 8: Teacher’s Pet by David Johnson
Book 9: A New Leash on Life by Patricia Sands
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9 primary booksDragonfly Cove Dog Park is a 9-book series with 9 primary works first released in 2024 with contributions by Kay Bratt, Tammy L. Grace, and 6 others.
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Best In Series For Making You Want To Explore The Author's Other Works. With some of the other books in this series, the authors do a great job of referencing their other books, maybe even bringing in a character or two - or at least someone connected to them who can reference them in-story - to entice the reader of this series to explore their other books. It is very well done within the stories they are telling and doesn't feel forced at all, just a casual "hey, there's other stuff out there that may warrant exploration, if you're into these characters" type of vibe.
Yeah... Johnson doesn't go that route. He's far more in your face about it - without being in your face about it at all. Instead, he brings in one of his major characters from some of his other work and gets you invested in this character's story even within the context of the story he is telling here as part of Dragonfly Cove... and then tells you in the author's note at the end "Oh yeah, if you want to see what actually happens with that character, well, this character just so happens to be the titular character in these other books I wrote".
And yet the story here itself is at least as powerful as the one with that other character, here using a retiree set in her ways as our main character and telling a compelling story of an old "get off my lawn" curmudgeon (literally, in a couple of cases, telling people to leave her yard) who has very distinct thoughts about how things should be done learning to live again in a new situation. And, maybe, through the love and dedication of her puppy... maybe she just might fall in love again?
There are several subplots to this story that all show the complexities of elder life in various forms, which I know many readers are desperate for these days as seeming so few books deal in main characters of this particular age bracket - despite it being among the larger sets of the American population at the moment.
By far the longest book of this series at nearly 300 pages, this is also one of the most complex-yet-easy-to-read stories in the series as well.
Very much recommended.
Originally posted at bookanon.com.