Some love stories begin with "once upon a time." The most beautiful ones begin with "once upon a time, again."Margaret Bellamy never expected her carefully ordered life to change. At 66, the widow has found contentment in her routines: morning coffee with crossword puzzles, afternoons in her beloved greenhouse, evenings writing in her journal. Eight years after her husband Richard's sudden death, she's built a peaceful existence that doesn't require anyone...

What happens when two people who've given up on love find each other through the wisdom of their dogs?Clara Bennett never expected her golden retriever Rosie to be a matchmaker. At fifty-six, the recently divorced librarian has built a careful life of independence in coastal Maine, far from the suffocating marriage that nearly erased her identity. Her morning walks through Millbrook's nature preserve are sacred solitude—until Rosie insists on investigating an inter...