Django Harte's devotion to the animals in his care has made The Ark the place to adopt cats and dogs (and the occasional pot-bellied pig, goat, or macaw). When the Whelan brothers show up to get yet another pit bull, Django refuses. He'd discovered that the trio run an illegal dogfight operation in a nearby rural county. When he blacklists them, the reaction is extreme. The outlaw brothers, not used to opposition or downright resistance, plan an elaborate, high profile payback. Nobody messes with the Whelans unpunished. Django knows he can handle just about anything the brothers throw at him, but he doesn't anticipate they'll go after his girlfriend, Fran Marshall and Fran's daughter Christina. When revenge arrives, Django must draw on resources he doesn't know he has to defeat a posse of furious Neo-Nazis. Shayla McBride lives on Gulfcoast Florida. At one point, after several years in the Peace Corps, she planned to live in Paris. France. But her kids live in Florida so here she is, living a sweet tropical life and not luxuriating in la Belle France. But, oh, for a decent bit of bread!Shayla's keen on gardenng (or at least keeping the greenery at bay), third-world travel, Asian street food, anything to do with kitchens (from total renovation to totally new recipes). She's a sucker for things literary, felines of all sorts, almost any red wine, darkest chocolate, and writing.New writers hold a special place in her heart; she was one for way too long. Now she seeks to help those on that path. After Writing Your First Fiction, it's back to suspense fiction, destroing whole cities and taking people out. The Ark, a no-kill Florida pet shelter, protects more than just abused or abandoned animals. Shelter manager Django Harte, a 38-year-old widower with a load of guilt you couldn't fit into a boxcar, protects and defends his charges with single-minded intensity. But his heart's no match for terr-stricken Fran Marshall, a reluctant visitor who's been bitten five times by dogs. When Fran's heart is captured by a withdrawn abused Catahoula Leopard hound named Millie, she doesn't realize she's stepping into a new world where both love and hate are in abundant supply.The world of the Pet Shelter series stars mature people with mature issues: 44-year-old divorcee and marshmallow entrepreneur (yes, marshmallows!) Fran Marshall and her overbearing big sister BethAnn who pretends to be both unmarried and Christie Marshall trying to navigate her first year at university where legacy athletes are treated like estate Mogul Howard F's ex-Special Forces security manager who knows no a Chihuahua-obsessed killer with grandiose plans that could wreck The Ark. The series is mostly sweet with a few (very appropriate) cuss words

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