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Rocky Sheehan’s world is shattered when her husband Bob dies unexpectedly. She leaves her psychology career, a Massachusetts office, and her former life behind, taking a job as animal control warden on Peak’s Island, a small community off the Maine coast. In this new setting, Rocky meets Lloyd, a black Labrador retriever with a damaged shoulder and a mysterious past. As she cares for Lloyd and uncovers the mystery of his accident, she also forms fragile friendships with a neurodivergent woman and a young girl with her own struggles. Through these relationships and the slow process of healing, Rocky learns that grief can be transformed and that joy can emerge in unexpected places.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Jacqueline Sheehan
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