Lorelei's Secret

Sometimes love can speak louder than words ...Paul Iverson's life is stable, orderly and dull - until he meets Lexy and her Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, Lorelei. From their first date, Lexy sweeps him off his feet and brings him passion, adventure and love. But one afternoon, Lexy climbs the apple tree in their backyard and falls to her death. Heartbroken, Paul cannot believe it was an accident and sets out to uncover the truth, with the help of the only creature who saw what happened, Lorelei. What follows is both comic and deeply touching as Paul tries to divine Lorelei's secret. And in his attempts to teach her to communicate, Paul revisits his often tempestuous romance with Lexy, learning things about his wife that he could never have imagined. "Lorelei's Secret" is a spellbinding novel that will win the heart of every reader with its story of unending love, loss and the lengths that people will go to when driven by grief and hope. Only Lorelei-- a dog-- was with Paul Iverson's wife on that last afternoon, the only witness to her death. Wild with misery and desperate to know the truth, Paul abandons his everyday life to undertake a series of experiments intended to teach Lorelei to communicate. As his strange project takes shape, Paul recalls the pivotal moments of his years with Lexy, the brilliant, enigmatic woman whose sparkling passion for life and dark, troubled past he embraced equally, but only thought he understood A spellbinding debut: heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure, this is a story of love, loss and the lengths that people go to when driven by grief and by hope.