The Luck of the Paw

Karma works in mysterious ways
A serial underachiever hits the road in search of a new life and the identity of the mysterious benefactor who sent her a winning lottery ticket.
A serial underachiever hits the road in search of a new life and the identity of the mysterious benefactor who sent her a winning lottery ticket.
After years of lousy luck, karma finally gives Mia Riggins a break. The arrival of a mysterious package of postcards and lottery tickets results in a sudden windfall that makes it possible for her to finally abandon her dead-end job and the dreary industrial area where she grew up. Accompanied by her digestively challenged dog Gizmo, Mia sets out on a road trip to find a new life–preferably a better one.
While changing a flat tire along the shore of a stunning lake, she meets architect Chris Blanchard who seems oddly familiar. After driving hundreds of miles to escape her past, Mia has managed to encounter the only person in the tiny town of Alpine Grove who remembers her as Amanita, the bizarre “poisonous mushroom girl” from high school. What were the odds? Probably about the same as winning the lottery.
Susan Daffron is the author of the Jennings and O'Shea novels and the Alpine Grove Romantic Comedies, a series of novels that feature residents of the small town of Alpine Grove and their various quirky dogs and cats. She is also an award-winning author of many nonfiction books, including several about pets and animal rescue. She lives in a small town in northern Idaho and shares her life with her husband and three really cute dogs.