Fiction Furbaby: Meet Abby, Goliath and Daughtry from Rescue Me in the Yesterday’s Promise anthology by Cheryl St john @_cherylstjohn_ @RobsRescues #RLFblog #Pets

I just finished a short story for a new anthology releasing September 1st, and I’m really excited to share a bit about it.

Cheryl, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! We support all furbabies, real life or fictional. We want to know all about your Fiction Furbaby, but first, please tell us about your short story Rescue Me.

Yesterday’s Promise by Cheryl St John and the Aspen Gold Series Authors

Genre Contemporary Romance

Book heat level (based on movie ratings): G

Natalie Jordan was a disappointment to her father, though she acquired the degrees he wanted her to earn and married the man he chose. She was a disappointment to her husband too, but when he dies and she inherits land in Colorado, it’s the perfect time to create her vision of a canine rescue center.

Avery Sawyer is surprising in more ways than one. He’s driven and determined. Natalie needs his help, and he’s willing to give it as long as she forms a partnership for a project so big, she’s hesitant to agree. Natalie has to face her self-doubts in this story of love at first sight.

Meet Abby, Goliath and Daughtry from Rescue Me in the Yesterday’s Promise Anthology

Abby was Natalie Jordan’s first adoption. Shortly after moving to the farm, she took in the skittish White Swiss Shepherd found running loose with a collar imbedded in her neck. Three years later Abby’s bark is still hoarse and she doesn’t use it much. Jackson the vet said her vocal cords were damaged, and it was a miracle she hadn’t starved or suffered permanent damage to her throat and esophagus. Abby is Natalie’s gentle giant, a calm, loving companion.

Goliath, a half-Chihuahua, half-toy poodle that looks like something from a Muppet movie and barely weighs four pounds with a full belly had been her next project. General consensus is that Goliath’s combination of salt and pepper hair mixed with tufts of gray, combined with his pointy ears make him too ugly to be adoptable, but to her he’s adorable. It took weeks of patience to correct his bad habit of lifting his leg wherever he smelled an interesting scent. Now he spends his time watering the entire outdoors.

Natalie’s third house dog is a brown and white Russell terrier she lovingly named Daughtry. Rollie Weston discovered the canine tied to a trash can behind the gas station. Malnourished and filthy, Daughtry had lost his fur due to a skin disease.

With medication and adequate diet, his coat filled in, and he’s now an alert and friendly fellow, though he has an awkward gait and isn’t very fast due to a past leg injury. He loves carrots as treats.

Do you have any working or service animals in your stories? Tell us about them.

Pax, short for Paxton is Avery Sawyer’s service dog. He’s a golden retriever, trained to assist a paraplegic and pull his person in a wheelchair if needed.

Yesterday’s Promise will be available soon at all your favorite book retailers.

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Cheryl is the author of more than fifty historical and contemporary romances. Her stories have earned numerous awards and are published in over a dozen languages. In describing her stories of second chances and redemption, readers and reviewers use words like, “emotional punch, hometown feel, core values, believable characters and real-life situations.” Her bestselling non-fiction books, Writing With Emotion, Tension & Conflict and Write Smart, Write Happy by Writers Digest Books are available in print and digital.
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Shout out to Rob’s Rescues – founded by a 9-year-old animal activist

Rob’s Rescues is a non-profit organization in Georgia helping people in need care for and feed their pets. It was founded in 2014 by a then nine-year-old boy. Rob’s Rescues is dedicated to collecting pet food for people in need to reduce shelter surrenders, and to advocating for the adoption of shelter pets. Rob writes monthly articles advocating for shelter animals in the Around About Local Media magazine publications. His column was first published in 2014. He also has pet food collection sites for people in need in the community and interviews amazing people. His interviews appear online once they are published in his column.

Rob volunteers for Pet Buddies Food Pantry, the Cherokee County Animal Shelter and Cobb County Animal Control and collects pet food for these organizations and the communities they serve. He also wants to bring attention to smaller, rural shelters. Mostly he wants to get kids to be Rob’s Rangers to teach kids that they can help shelter animals. Rob has also talked to kids in a classroom setting.
Rob’s Rescues is a Non-Profit Corporation and all donations are tax deductible.
Website http://www.robsrescues.com/
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Image credits: Depositphotos, final image by Cheryl St.John