Saving Mac While Finding Love

A sweet, lighthearted contemporary romance, set in Chicago, Illinois, about family and friendship, work and play, independence and connection, and in the middle of it all, a lovable mutt named Mac.

Lani O'Donnell, a fiercely independent engineer, wants to prove to her four over-protective brothers that she is capable of running both her personal and professional life. She refuses to work for the family construction company and instead takes a job with the fledgling Flaherty Construction Company as a contract consultant and administrator on a six-month trial basis.

Jake Flaherty, the single-minded owner of Flaherty Construction, raised as the only child of a single mother, has decided that emotions are dangerous and logic is the answer to any problem. A family dinner with his new employee throws them together socially, and their reluctant attraction to each other becomes obvious.

Because of Lani's past record of dating only losers—in her brothers' opinion—they decide to secretly put Jake through a series of tests to assess his qualities as a potential spouse for their little sister. Soon Lani's well-intentioned but interfering sister-in-law and mother get in on the act, and it isn't too long before Jake's mom—impatiently waiting for grandkids—adds to the manipulations.

The biggest complication, besides Lani's bossy older brothers and growing attraction to her off-limits boss, is Mac, Lani's rescue mutt, an Irish Wolfhound who suffers from severe separation anxiety.

It's a recipe for disaster…or is it?