Folly's House (A Dog Named Folly)

Three-year-old Rocket is an adorable little boy who has been unable to speak since the car accident on a rainy South Florida night two years earlier that injured him and killed his parents. Silenced by fears he can’t articulate, Rocket struggles to cope. No amount of therapy or pleading by his foster parents makes a difference. The trauma of his short life is just too much for him. All that changes when Jannie and her huge black lab dog named Folly move into the old abandoned house next door. Rocket and Folly quickly become inseparable, causing problems that Jannie has not anticipated and does not want so soon after getting her heart broken. Her life is further complicated when she hires Garrett, a young electrician just getting his own business started, to redo the wiring in her historic old house. Garrett falls in love with her and believes he has the solution for everyone, but Jannie knows he does not. Blinded by the pain of her recent divorce, she can’t see any solution to these problems, at least not one where no one gets hurt. And Jannie will not allow herself to get hurt again. Patricia Reed’s debut novel is the story of a love triangle, but not the usual triangle of another man or another woman. This is a man, a woman, and a courageous little boy whose love for Folly binds them all together on their way to an unexpected ending that no one will ever forget.