Sleeping Borzoi
(2026)(The tenth book in the Maple Cove Dog Lovers' Society series)
A novel by Nala Henkel Aislinn
Katarina Brugev knows one thing about football players: they’re best admired from a distance.
She has a simple plan: charm her boss, Marshall, and secure his endorsement for the Sorbonne Fellowship she's worked her entire career toward, and be home by dinner. She will smile. She will be pleasant. She will not think about the port-a-potties.
What she didn't account for was Marshall handing her the leash of his Great Dane—and Herodotus deciding, without warning, to gallop the full length of a muddy field to chase a ball. Her latte went airborne, her dignity with it, and she landed, mud-streaked and mortified, directly on top of Eric King.
Eric is a quarterback trying to outrun a scandal. His agent has a solution: a believable love story, a fresh-start narrative, and ideally someone the press will find charming. The woman currently covered in coffee and mud was not the plan.
His agent thinks it's brilliant, and crafts a plan to get everyone what they want.
As a Pacific Northwest summer settles in, the fake romance starts feeling real, and both of them discover that the plans you make for your life are rarely as reliable as a very large dog with very strong opinions about where you should be standing.
If you enjoy sports romance that has the quirky banter and community charm of Gilmore Girls, this small-town romance will feel like coming home.
Genre: Romance
She has a simple plan: charm her boss, Marshall, and secure his endorsement for the Sorbonne Fellowship she's worked her entire career toward, and be home by dinner. She will smile. She will be pleasant. She will not think about the port-a-potties.
What she didn't account for was Marshall handing her the leash of his Great Dane—and Herodotus deciding, without warning, to gallop the full length of a muddy field to chase a ball. Her latte went airborne, her dignity with it, and she landed, mud-streaked and mortified, directly on top of Eric King.
Eric is a quarterback trying to outrun a scandal. His agent has a solution: a believable love story, a fresh-start narrative, and ideally someone the press will find charming. The woman currently covered in coffee and mud was not the plan.
His agent thinks it's brilliant, and crafts a plan to get everyone what they want.
As a Pacific Northwest summer settles in, the fake romance starts feeling real, and both of them discover that the plans you make for your life are rarely as reliable as a very large dog with very strong opinions about where you should be standing.
If you enjoy sports romance that has the quirky banter and community charm of Gilmore Girls, this small-town romance will feel like coming home.
Genre: Romance