Tropical Hellhound's Heartbreak

[ellenmillion]

Have an April Fool's Day piece of ridiculous:



It’s hell being this cute.

Ever since hellhound poodle shifter Packer Davis won an Internet prize for ‘cutest demonic shifter,’ his bodyguard business pack has made his life miserable. And no one wants to hire someone that’s fluffy and adorable. So when a mysterious client books him as a protective escort to a tropical resort for shifters only, he can’t pack his bags fast enough.

Cat shifter Christy Brown needs to get out of town and off the radar of some Very Bad People, and a discount booking at the newly reopened Shifting Sands Resort seems like the perfect escape. On a whim, she hires a bodyguard, sight unseen.

Cats and dogs aside, Christy and Packer know that they’re in for a wild ride as soon as they meet at the airport and recognize that they are fated mates. They aren’t expecting the stowaway in Christy’s luggage, or the fireworks waiting for them at the resort.

TROPICAL HELLHOUND’S HEARTBREAK, Book #11 in the off-beat Shifting Sands Resort series, coming NEVER, because this is just a silly April Fool’s Day bit of fun (please forgive me!) prompted by the title suggestions of readers James Born and Andrew William Bryan.

...except that now I kind of DO want to write it...and probably will. (As a short, not as a full-length!)

Comments

[havocthecat]

Do it! Definitely do it.

[kelkyag]

Hellhound poodles. You are terrible. :-P

[zeeth_kyrah]

I've met poodles. Toy poodles are the worst, I'm more afraid a toy poodle would bite me than one of the "dangerous" breeds. Big poodles are prima donna show dogs and they usually know it, so much easier to be around as long as you don't poke anything that's theirs. Both sizes are very possessive dogs, though.

[kelkyag]

Toy poodles I'll give you can be nasty cranky little yip-dogs. (Sadly, because they're easily controlled physically, small dogs often aren't well-trained, or indeed trained at all, or socialized to deal with anyone but their human, which is problematic all around.) Standard poodles are quite smart and can be retrievers and service dogs -- and can get bored and obnoxious if they aren't provided with enough interesting things to do, as can most other smart dogs. I don't know if the smaller variations are as bright, but if so, and if they're mostly treated as decorative pets, they're probably bored to tears.