The Deputy's K-9 Matchmaker — Debra Salonen

Giving up sucks…unless it's for the right reasons. Deputy Ben Jacobs stepped off the LAPD career ladder because he couldn't take Czar, his canine partner of nine years, with him. Aged-out? B.S. Luckily, the new sheriff in Coyote Springs needed a canine department but lacked critical funds to buy young dogs and train them. A PR stunt introduces them to another newcomer—a beautiful, ambitious reporter with a nose for trouble. To Ben's chagrin, Czar falls for her on the spot. And worse, Ben can't get her out of his head, either. Starting a new job is thrilling…unless it's in your old home town. Jill Martin's back in Coyote Springs to lick her wounds after a lousy divorce. But her new job as an investigative reporter may be the ticket to the big time. Bad things are happening in her old hometown. She doesn't have time to get side-tracked by a silly attraction to the sheriff's new hire: a sexy, by-the-book deputy with the coolest K-9 on the planet. But when something freaky happens, she sees a side of Ben Jacobs she can't unsee…even if she wanted to. And her journalist instincts tell her some things—like love—call for a leap of faith.