Happy New Year to my friends, fans, and visitors! And what a year it's going to be! Starting with...Old Dog New Tricks, the ninth book in The Dogfather Series! This is Daniel's story, the man who started it all, and I promise great love, good laughs, and more than a few (happy, mostly) tears. I don't have a release date yet, but it's going to be very soon. If you want to be notified when Old Dog New Tricks is released, join my mailing list and you'll be the first to know!

Here's a blurb to whet your appetite:

Daniel Kilcannon, the veterinarian known as the Dogfather, has been widowed for four years. He's spent the time running the largest canine rescue and training facility in North Carolina and pulling some strings to make sure each of his six grown children find a love like the one he lost when his beloved Annie died. But as the years slip by, Daniel's decision to never love again is starting to make him restless. When a woman who was pivotal to his past arrives in Bitter Bark, he wonders if her appearance is coincidence or the guiding hand of his dearly departed wife...but the truth is neither. She's about to change his life again in ways he could never have imagined. And Daniel isn't sure if his heart -- or his family -- will ever recover from the impact.

If you haven't read the Dogfather series yet, the first book is FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! Check out any retailer and download Sit...Stay...Beg for free! Then you can devour the whole series! Which is now nine books (AND THERE WILL BE MORE, I PROMISE!).

Remember I donate a portion of sales from every book in the series to Alaqua Animal Refuge, where every cover in the series was shot (with rescue dogs on every cover and local dog lovers as models). By sharing a percentage of first month's sales plus being able to augment that periodically when sales are super strong, we've donated around $10,000 so far and fully expect that number to go up, up, up. All because of my wonderful, supportive readers. I thank you, Alaqua thanks you, and the precious rescue animals who find their forever home are wagging their tails with love. (I adopted a precious pup named Rosie from Alaqua on December 6 and she has changed my life!!)

If you love the series, love dogs, love my books, or just love to connect with other like-minded readers, please join my private Dogfather Fans facebook page! I share snippets right from my manuscript in progress, have weekly (sometimes daily) giveaways, and talk openly about my process, my characters, and my life. It's a page where we celebrate "tails and tales" and all readers are welcome!

xoxo

Rocki