Book excerpt: Love and loyalty are lost and found in this moving and unforgettable novel by New York Times bestselling author Susan WilsonSingle mom Skye Mitchell has sunk her last dime into her dream, owning the venerable if run-down LakeView Hotel in the Berkshire Hills. It's here where she believes she'll give her fourteen-year-old daughter Cody a better life. But being an innkeeper is more challenging than Skye imagined, and the once loving and open Cody has become completely withdrawn.When Adam March suffers a painful loss, he and his pit bull, Chance, check into LakeView in search of escape. What he didn't expect to find was an instant connection with Skye. Adam knows the struggles of raising a difficult teenager all too well. And Skye understands loneliness like nobody's business.And then there is Mingo, a street kid with a pit bull dog of his own. When Cody discovers an overdosed Mingo, Adam takes the boy's dog not just for safekeeping, but to foster and then rehome. But Mingo could use rehoming, too. Soon, a makeshift family begins to form as four lost people learn to trust and rely on each other - with the help of two good dogs.