I opened a dog grooming salon to start over.
I didn’t expect four hockey players’ dogs to drag them straight to me.
Paws & Claws is mine. Every wash station, every towel, every inch of the daycare yard I check each morning. I moved to Puckridge with my rescue pit bull Tank and one promise: build something that belongs to me. No alphas. No one close enough to reach the soft parts.
Then a golden retriever named Biscuit shows up matted to the ears, and Tank — my stoic, doesn’t-wag-for-anyone sentinel — decides this dog is his. Inseparable within a week. Which means Biscuit’s owner keeps coming back. And his teammates keep tagging along:
Jude — six-four, gentle hands, a voice that makes my knees forget how to work.
Tate — all kinetic energy and a grin that could talk me into anything.
Keegan — shows up with a toolbox and fixes my drainage without being asked. His hands know how things fit together.
Levi — the quiet beta who brings his anxious greyhound to daycare and sits on my floor in silence until I forget I’m supposed to be withdrawn.
Their scents fill my salon every day — pine resin, bonfire smoke, fresh-sawn oak, bergamot. My suppressants are cracking. My skin runs warm. And I keep finding their hoodies draped over the nesting nook Keegan built in my back room before anyone used the word nest.
I have one rule: I don’t need anyone.
They don’t push. They just keep showing up — lattes on the stoop, my fence rebuilt overnight, sitting outside Tank’s walls the way I once sat outside his kennel. Patient. Steady. Still here.
And the harder I grip the life I built alone, the more I realize the dogs figured it out before any of us.
Knot a Good Boy is a cozy, steamy omegaverse why choose romance featuring forced proximity, fated mates, a nesting nook, generous knotting, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Perfect for readers who love:
• Rescue dogs who choose your pack for you
• Hockey alphas who fix your plumbing
• A quiet omega who notices everything
• Found family built one borrowed hoodie at a time
• Nesting, knotting, and scent recognition that won’t quit
• HEA for the pack and furever friends for the dogs
