Dog Days of Summer Bride

WHEN TWO PEOPLE UNKNOWINGLY OWN THE SAME DOG, THERE'S BOUND TO BE TROUBLE
Music teacher Miralee Davis hasn't got a beau, but she does have a dog—sometimes. His name is Mozart, but she calls him Mo. He would be the perfect canine companion except for one very disturbing fault; Mo disappears every week like clockwork for three or four days. That wouldn't be so bad if he didn't come back looking like a ragamuffin and smelling like yesterday's fish dinner.

Blacksmith Jed Colbert's dog Dynamite (Dyna for short) has the same disturbing habit. Only when Dyna returns home he puts the male species to shame by smelling like a dandy.

Neither Jed nor Miralee know they share the same dog until . . . Mozart/Dynamite digs up a stash of stolen loot. The reward will go to the dog's owner—if only Miralee and Jed could agree on who that owner is. And that's not all they disagree on. Miralee objects to Jed letting Mo romp in the mud and sleep on the sofa. Jed objects to the blue-eyed beauty pampering Dynamite and making his canine fishing partner smell like a flower shop. But soon both are objecting to the unsettling attraction that threatens to overshadow their doggy dilemma with a whole new set of problems.

It's going to take an act of Congress for these two sometime pet owners to see eye-to-eye—and maybe even a little help from a certain matchmaking dog who now answers to the name Dyna-Mo.