Sit, Stay, Love (Love Unleashed #1) by Dana Mentik -- Book Tour Review + Giveaway

4/25/2016

About the Book

Take one abrasive professional athlete, a quirky out-of-work schoolteacher, and an overweight geriatric dog, and you’re ready for a lesson in love . . . Tippy style.

Pro baseball pitcher Cal Crawford is not a dog guy. When he inherits his deceased mother’s elderly dog, Tippy, he’s quick to call on a pet-sitting service.

Gina isn’t thrilled to be a dog sitter when her aspirations lie in the classroom. Furthermore, she can’t abide the unfriendly Cal, a man with all the charm of a wet towel. But with no other prospects and a deep love for all things canine, she takes the job caring for Tippy.

As Gina travels through Cal’s world with Tippy in tow, she begins to see Cal in a different light. Gina longs to show Cal the God-given blessings in his life that have nothing to do with baseball or fame. When her longing blooms into attraction, Gina does her best to suppress it. But Cal is falling in love with her too…
Discover the charming story of Tippy, the dog who brought a family together.

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About the Author

Dana Mentink lives in California, where the weather is golden and the cheese is divine. Dana is an American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year finalist for romantic suspense and an award winner in the Pacific Northwest Writers Literary Contest. Her suspense novel, Betrayal in the Badlands, earned a Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award. Besides writing, she busies herself teaching third and fourth grade. Mostly, she loves to be home with her husband, two daughters, a dog with social anxiety problems, a chubby box turtle, and a feisty parakeet.

Watch for book 2 coming in August...

Review

Sit, Stay, Love by Dana Mentik is a cute romance that involves a man and a woman and with a little help from a dog. Pro baseball pitcher Cal Crawford inherits his mother’s dog, Tippy when she passes away and he is definitely not a dog guy. So he hires Gina to take care of Tippy. Along the way Gina befriends Tippy and Cal and a love triangle ensues. This story is filled with ups and downs and laughs. With great characters and a cute romance, I would recommend this novel to readers that enjoy contemporary romance with the addition of an adorable and loving dog.

Series: Love Unleashed
Genre: contemporary, romance, Christian, dogs
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Publication date: April 1, 2016
Number of pages: 224

Content Rating: PG
Book Rating: 5 stars

Other books in the series:
2-Fetching Sweetness (coming August, 2016)

A review copy of this book was provided by LitFuse.

Giveaway

One grand prize winner will receive:

A copy of Sit, Stay, Love
A $75 Visa cash card
A basket filled with Tippy-themed goodies
- Travel-themed decorator box
- Reading dog statue
- Dog journal
- Poems for Dog Lovers
- Snuggle Paws fleece blanket from Animal Rescue Site
- Pawprint scarf
- Doxie desk pen
- Pupmobile auto magnet