Arlo Wright is coming home.

Three years after leaving the only place he's ever felt himself, Arlo moves back to Gaynor Beach, California, and this time it's permanent. After a hellish few years of trying to pretend he didn't leave a piece of his soul behind when he left at the end of that fateful summer, Arlo is choosing to live for himself, and no one else.

Of course, that means the first person he finds himself face to face with when back is the promise of forever he left behind.

Jordan Adams just wants to be kept.

After getting his heart broken twice, Jordan isn't looking for love. He has his job as one of Gaynor Beach's top dog trainers, and his menagerie to keep him company. His best friends are his cousin and the first person he ever loved, so asking for more seems to be a recipe for disappointment.

Until the one person he'll never forget shows back up, and Jordan is tossed in a tailspin of "what could have been."

One summer to heal the past.

Jordan and Arlo agree they can't—shouldn't—be together. Not after both men barely survived the first breakup. What they can do is be friends.

Friends who help each other out when times are tough. Friends who spend days on the beach together. Friends who train Arlo's excitable puppy together.

Friends who are very much still in love.

Risking a second chance may mean reopening old wounds, but letting go of their happiness—again—could be their undoing. With a little fate, and a lot of animal interruptions, they might find what they've been looking for all along. In each other.

A Furry Thing Called Love is a low-angst, second chance romance set in the Friends of Gaynor Beach Animal Rescue series. It contains a menagerie, ace and disability rep, and a romance that feels a lot like real life.