Action and adventure with high stakes and a happy ending - and dogs! After Ember is rescued from a devastating house fire, she longs for a forever home. But every family that adopts the yellow Lab puppy brings her back, saying she is untrainable, has too much energy, or is just plain destructive....

When Dusty, starving and sick, is picked up on the side of the highway after losing his pack, he\"s lucky to be alive. The tiny Chihuahua is small enough to fit in two hands and needs special care to be nursed back to health before he can be adopted out to a forever family....

Gem is a golden retriever puppy who loves to dig. She gets adopted out to a handful of would-be forever families, but no matter how much she wants to please her new people, she can\"t keep herself from digging up the roses... and the lawn... and the couch cushions... anything that\"s remotely diggable....

It has been a wonderful, quite adventurous, sometimes painful, disappointing, and frustrating fifteen years since I first met Tobias at that pill window. I was thinking just the other day, "We'll be married for fifteen years very soon and we've never seen each other naked." What a mess. I had to laugh at that myself....