The Journalist and the Dog Walker
(2026)(The first book in the Lucky in Love series)
A novel by Jennie Jones
When headstrong meets stubborn, and the last thing they expect to find is love.
A feel-good, opposites attract, sweet small-town romance set on the New South Wales coast.Book 1 in the Lucky in Love series.
Sophie has a business to save. Nick has a family crisis to fix. And love is about to get in their way.
Sophie Hammond thought she had only seven all-consuming problems.
Starting a house and garden help agency in country-coastal Swan’s Head is her last chance for a new beginning. Despite reluctant workers, unpredictable locals, and a client with five spectacularly untrainable dogs up at dilapidated Brookes House, she has no intention of failing.
Then a grouchy journalist catches her red-handed with a suitcase full of Miss Brookes’ hidden cash, and Sophie suddenly has a very inconvenient problem number eight.
Foreign correspondent Nick Berringer came to Swan’s Head to mend his grandmother’s feud with a great-aunt he never knew existed. Instead, he finds unexplained cash stashed in his great-aunt’s attic, a stately old house falling apart around them, and an exasperatingly quick-witted dog walker standing between him and the truth.
Nick doesn’t do small towns, feuding relatives or misplaced trust. Sophie doesn’t do brooding journalists who assume the worst. But somewhere between the family secrets, the hidden cash, and the unruly dogs determined to throw them together at every opportunity, they discover that neither of them came to this small town looking for the one thing they’re about to find.
Each other.
Genre: Romance
A feel-good, opposites attract, sweet small-town romance set on the New South Wales coast.Book 1 in the Lucky in Love series.
Sophie has a business to save. Nick has a family crisis to fix. And love is about to get in their way.
Sophie Hammond thought she had only seven all-consuming problems.
Starting a house and garden help agency in country-coastal Swan’s Head is her last chance for a new beginning. Despite reluctant workers, unpredictable locals, and a client with five spectacularly untrainable dogs up at dilapidated Brookes House, she has no intention of failing.
Then a grouchy journalist catches her red-handed with a suitcase full of Miss Brookes’ hidden cash, and Sophie suddenly has a very inconvenient problem number eight.
Foreign correspondent Nick Berringer came to Swan’s Head to mend his grandmother’s feud with a great-aunt he never knew existed. Instead, he finds unexplained cash stashed in his great-aunt’s attic, a stately old house falling apart around them, and an exasperatingly quick-witted dog walker standing between him and the truth.
Nick doesn’t do small towns, feuding relatives or misplaced trust. Sophie doesn’t do brooding journalists who assume the worst. But somewhere between the family secrets, the hidden cash, and the unruly dogs determined to throw them together at every opportunity, they discover that neither of them came to this small town looking for the one thing they’re about to find.
Each other.
Genre: Romance