Casey Griffin launches a romantic comedy series with Must Love Wieners. Set in San Francisco, this enjoyable, dog-centered novel is about two rescued dachshunds and how they bring together an unlikely couple.
Piper Summers is a 26-year-old veterinary student who moonlights at three jobs: driving taxis, delivering pizza and performing singing telegrams. She also volunteers at a Dachshund Rescue Center and is the owner of the lovable doxie Colin. One day, Piper sashays into a high-powered investment firm dressed as a sexy cowgirl, intent on delivering a country-western singing telegram professing love and bestowing chocolates on Aiden Caldwell, whom she thinks is a crotchety old business tycoon. Inside a crowded boardroom, Piper takes a misstep amid her song-and-dance number, tumbling into the lap of a gorgeous, Armani-clad young businessman who turns out to be Caldwell, a charismatic billionaire. Piper's embarrassment is compounded when she later loses two of her three jobs.
But Aiden, with his playboy reputation, is smitten with Piper. The two keep crossing paths until Aiden offers Piper a job walking his beloved rescued doxie, Sophie, who happens to be well acquainted with Colin. As the relationship between the dogs and their masters deepens, issues of trust and compatibility arise, as do a series of harrowing threats that bring unexpected challenges and danger to their lives. Is someone jealous of their romance?
Griffin's spirited, wholesome love story escalates into a deeper mystery offering playful comic relief en route to revealing whodunit. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines