Ruff Around the Edges in Seagull Bay (Love in Seagull Bay #8)

Marcus Mitchell has built Ruff to Regal into one of Seagull Bay’s busiest little businesses.

With the annual dog competition approaching, his grooming diary is overflowing, his feet ache by lunchtime, and his smile is starting to feel a little too fixed.

Everyone sees Marcus as cheerful, capable, and always ready with a joke—but beneath the sparkle, he is beginning to wonder if he will always be the friend cheering on everyone else’s happy ending.

Then Rowan Blake walks through the door with Atlas, a retired police dog who refuses to be groomed.

A former police dog handler turned animal behaviourist, Rowan understands difficult dogs better than he understands people.

He is calm, guarded, and determined not to get attached to Seagull Bay—or to the charming dog groomer who seems to see far more than Rowan wants him to.

As Marcus and Rowan work together to help Atlas feel safe again, trust begins to grow in the quietest of ways.

But Rowan is still haunted by the incident that ended his police career, and Marcus knows all too well how quickly life can change.

With the dog competition drawing closer, old wounds, new hopes, and one very special dog may bring two lonely hearts together — if they are brave enough to stop running from the love waiting right in front of them.