title: Summer at the Dog & Duck
author: Steeples, Jill
description: The perfect summer read. Continuing the light-hearted, uplifting dramas around the 'The Dog & Duck' pub and the life of its landlady Ellie Browne.
  Ellie Browne
   has found happiness running The Dog and Duck pub in the idyllic village of Little Leyton, and her blossoming romance with tall, handsome property developer,
  Max Golding
  , is going swimmingly. With her new best friend,
  Digby
  , the black Labrador at her side, life just couldn't be sweeter.
  But their peace is shattered when
  Max
  's younger sister,
  Katy
  , turns up unannounced with a whole heap of attitude. And
  Max
  's loyalties are stretched further when his glamorous ex,
  Sasha
  , re-appears with her own burgeoning secret.
  With the master of the manor preoccupied with the demands of his 'other women',
  Ellie
  's forced to consider if she has any role to play in
  Max
  's life or in the village of Little Leyton.
  Can
  Ellie
   get her life and relationship back on track in time for the summer charity ball at Braithwaite Manor?