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“Romantic love meets a passion for animals in this charming collection of stories by 10 outstanding romance writers … a delightfully satisfying celebration of the mutually beneficial bond between humans and other animals.” (Booklist Online)
Atticus Saves Lisa by Ann Christopher
With a little help from Atticus the capuchin therapy monkey, Lisa Evans will realize that she can finally give up her role as her brother’s caretaker and embrace romance with Cruz Shaw, her brother’s best friend and the man who’s been in love with her forever.
“I’m in love with you, Lisa,” said Cruz Shaw.
Oh, my God.
Stunned paralysis set in, rooting Lisa Evans’s butt to the sofa and her jaw to the floor. Her fingers tightened reflexively around her glass of zinfandel, threatening to snap the stem, and she worked hard to loosen them, to breathe and gather her thoughts.
She’d been staring with deliberate focus across the living room at her brother Keenan and his therapy pet, a capuchin monkey (she always thought of them as organ grinder monkeys) named Atticus, trying to pretend she was only peripherally aware of Cruz sitting next to her, but so much for that.
The possibility of Cruz loving her had all sorts of unwanted emotions jamming her throat, clogging it. Surprise and dismay were there and, hidden deeper but no less powerful, tiny flickers of … joy?