Review: Quick but a fun romance!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2013
Single mom Leah has had a rough few years, her husband left her for a younger woman, leaving her to raise her 2 sons.  Her younger son has a high IQ, which often makes it hard for him to relate to other children.  She's also been fighting with her family to keep her mischevious grandfather out of a nursing home.  Her grandfather tries all sorts of experiments which lead to havoc and chaos, to the point where Leah and the boys and he, have had to move to a new town.They have arrived in Shady Oaks, bringing along their Beagle and Leah hopes that this move will work for all of them. It doesn't take very long before the craziness ensues.  First, her dog Arnold escapes his fenced in backyard and makes a mess out of the neighbor's morning paper.  Shane, her attractive neighbor, just happens to be the mayor of the small town and a well-loved doctor in town, who had lost his wife to cancer three years ago.  Her grandfather's antics involve a fire in their garage one night and then a few weeks later, another tinkering results in a neighborhood wide blackout.  One of the other neighbors is a busybody who tries to convince the rest of the neighborhood and town that Shady Oaks would be better off without Leah's family in it.Even though Leah and Shane got off on the wrong foot because of Arnold and his newspaper and then Arnold's obsession with Shane's pedigree dog, they soon realize that they cannot fight the attraction between them.  But their pasts may be obstacles that they cannot overcome and neither one of them may be ready to put their hearts on the line again.I received a copy of Love Gone to the Dogs in exchange for a fair review and I really enjoyed the story.  It was a quick read, easily read in a few hours time, but the characters were developed well enough for me to want to keep on reading to see what craziness would happen next and hoping that Leah and Shane would accept the second chance at love that neither of them saw coming!This was my first book that I've read by Margaret Daley, but I'm looking forward to reading more of her books!