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Hot Under the Collar (The Dogmothers #1) - Roxanne St. Claire

Wow!  What a fun, perfect start to a new spinoff series of The Dogfather.  Now that Daniel Kilcannon has found love again, someone else has to step up to be the family matchmaker.  Who better than Gramma Finnie?  Except she is being joined by Agnes "Yiayia" Santorini....mother-in-law to Daniel's new fiance, Kate....the woman who despises anything that is not Greek.  While Yiayia is usually not the nicest person to be around, because of something that happened she is trying to turn over a new leaf and be a nicer person.  The Santorini's don't believe for a minute that Yiayia has changed, especially her granddaughter, Cassie Santorini.  Too bad The Dogmother's have their sights on matchmaking Cassie and Gramma Finnie's grandson, Braden Mahoney, the hot firefighter.  Cassie and Braden have been attracted to each other since the first time they met but they have never acted on their feelings.  When The Dogmother's find a way to get Cassie and Braden to spend more time together, they don't mind.  In fact they enjoy spending a lot of time together and come to the understanding that it will be only temporary since Cassie has plans to leave and move to a big city.  As these two spend more time together, they both start to realize that they want more than just temporary but both of them are afraid to follow through.  It will take 3 large families, Kilcannon-Mahoney-Santorini and one adorable Weimaraner, named Jelly Bean to get these two to their happy ending.

I just adored Cassie and Braden.  Cassie is an event planner with dreams of working in a big city.  Braden is a firefighter just like his brothers with dreams of getting his dog Jelly Bean to be an arson dog....too bad the dog is having problems smelling.  These two had such great banter together...both of them a little sassy....but both of them perfect!  Their chemistry was off the charts because they both just got each other.  This was a wonderful story that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you love these two characters.