Dog Year

Dr. Lucy Peterman was not built for a messy life. Awell-respected surgeon whose patients rely on her warmth, compassion, andfierce support, Lucy has always worked hard and trusted in the system. She'snot the sort of person who ends up in a twelve-step program after being caughtstealing supplies from her hospital.But that was Lucy before the accident-before her husband andunborn baby were ripped away from her in an instant, before her future feltlike a broken promise. Caught red-handed in a senseless act that kept herdemons at bay, she's faced with a choice: get some help or lose her medicallicense.Now she's reluctantly sharing her deepest fears with a bunchof strangers, avoiding her loneliness by befriending a troubled girl, pinningher hopes on her husband's last gift, and getting involved with a rugged copfrom her past. It's only when she is adopted by a stray mutt and moves hergroup to the dog park that she begins to truly bond with the ragtag dog-lovingaddicts-and discovers that a chaotic, unplanned life might be the sweetest ofall.