This author is hit and miss for me and this was sadly a miss. I've never read a book where the entire cast had such a low iq. Also the worst protector ever. Butch kept saying he'd take care of Treat and Doby and failed repeatedly. The final KO was Doby (2yo) being used as a prop. I can't stand when there are babies in a romance, but they're only used like a prop. They sleep like 18 hrs a day and the few hrs they're awake a neighbor watches them or they play quietly in a corner. Allowing the single father to have a normal romance/sex life with little interruption and all kinds of clutching of pearls about his precious child when anything goes wrong. Oh- and the dreaded male MC that's written like a female. I've never had that problem with this author before, even with her femme MCs. So I was disappointed to see that in this one.