The Love Dog
In her blog, Unvarnished, Samantha Novack presents the cold, hard truth about all our fantasies about love and happily-ever-after. One recent target is The Love Dog, a popular television show featuring Apollo, a golden retriever that brings feuding couples back together. Having lost her day job as a paralegal, Samantha accepts a position as an undercover “journalist” for Telltale, a gossip magazine. Her first assignment? Get the down and dirty on The Love Dog. After she gets hired on the show as dog handler for the star, she discovers such secrets as the fact that the fractured couples on the show are actually actors. However, she finds herself drawn to the host, Mason Hall, and soon she’s not sure where her loyalty lies. Fans of such canine capers as those in the late, great Judi McCoy’s Dog Walker series (Fashion Faux Paw, 2012) will enjoy Watson’s story, too, especially because Samantha and Apollo narrate alternating chapters. --Shelley Mosley