Homecoming by Lauren Gilley

It pays to be top dog.

It’s spring in Knoxville, and the Lean Dogs are expanding, buying up new business fronts on Main Street, including the infamous Bell Bar. But with success comes challenges – and, in this case, the challenge comes from a now-familiar enemy, one hellbent on destroying the Dogs.

Carter Michaels is dealing with his own, personal turmoil. Ever since injury forced him to give up his football dreams, he’s struggled to find his place within his home city, and within the club he’s pledged himself to. Aimless and depressed, it takes a big shakeup from an old friend to have him questioning the direction of his life, for the better.

Hot off an op in Texas, Reese is finding his footing back in Knoxville, learning how to be a human, a Lean Dog – and a friend, to the ruthless, talented, vicious Tenny, Fox’s London-born, trained-assassin brother. An admittedly strange, fraught friendship…that might be something more, if only Reese had the words to categorize it.

The Lean Dogs saga continues in book eight of the Dartmoor Series, HOMECOMING, where personal and public drama plays out on the streets of Knoxville in typical, rollicking fashion.