Set in a small town on Cape Cod, Bell Buoy begins with a fire and ends with a new beginning.

Sadie and Sasha’s transformation from abandoned, near-feral dogs into beloved pets was never easy (although it was often funny), and the outcome was never certain. It took almost a year, a 3,500 mile road trip in the middle of winter, crazy amounts of hot dogs and coffee, a volunteer co-pilot, a canine hitchhiker named Pooch, an amazing husband, some serious money and a lot of help but I saved Sasha and her sister Sadie. This is not a dog training book. There are probably a hundred things I did wrong in my quest to help these dogs become fit for life on the “outside.” Nor is it a book about how pit bulls make the greatest pets. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. No, it is a book about how a year changed my life. It is about loving dogs, and making a gradually larger space in your life for the ones that really need you. Profits go to pit bull rescue groups.

The 13 stories in Breaking and Entering are about relatively ordinary people who experience beauty and tragedy in their lives when they least expect it. Each story in the collection explores a facet of what happens when the barriers or bonds between people break down. These breakdowns can be caused by a chance encounter, a long forgotten choice or a simple mistake. Breaking and Entering is also the title of the first story in the collection. It is about a man who has just helped his beloved terminally ill wife die, when an odd pair of burglars break into his house and give him a reason to live. Fallout Shelter, another story in the collection, was initially published in Short Story America's inaugural anthology, available at www.shortstoryamerica.com.