Lost & Found

Rocky is a psychologist in Massachusetts when she finds her husband Bob dead on the bathroom floor at forty-two. She quits her job, cuts off her hair and leaves, reinventing her past along the way. Her new post is Animal Control Warden on Peak's Island, a small island off the coast of Maine.

The island is far from everything she has lost, but grief does not lift quickly. Rocky is quirky and fallible, and her recovery is slow and painful. She makes friends with a woman whose mind works in unusual ways and with a young girl who is trying to disappear.

Then a large black Labrador retriever named Lloyd turns up with a primitive arrow lodged in his shoulder. Rocky and the injured dog form a bond. She also wants to know who shot him and where his owner has gone.

The search leads her to an archery instructor. He draws her in, though she has plenty of reasons not to trust him.

This is contemporary women's fiction about bereavement and starting over. The tone is warm and often humorous, with a mystery running underneath and a dog at the center of the healing.