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A Lake Harriet Novel

Love isn’t always a walk in the park…

Ryan Collier has lived a quiet life with his golden retriever, Sam, and two orange tabbies since the death of his wife nearly three years ago. Friends and family are encouraging him to move on and find someone new to share his life with, but Ryan feels he will never find someone he can love as much as his wife. Ryan reluctantly gives in and starts going out on weekends, and soon discovers that women have changed as well as the rules of dating. He’s longing for a fulfilling relationship but the women he meets only want one-night stands. Then, Kristen moves in next door and he’s happy to find they have a lot in common. There’s only one problem—she’s not available.

Kristen Foster craves a peaceful place to call home. With her stressful job as a pediatric oncology nurse and a failed marriage behind her, she doesn’t want any more drama in her life. Then her casual boyfriend—a surgeon—proposes to her. And she finds that the widower next door is a thirty-something, handsome man who seems to have his choice of young women every weekend. His only redeeming quality is his beautiful dog, Sam. But as she gets to know Ryan, Kristen is drawn to him. She finds herself struggling to choose between the dependable surgeon or the man she believes is the neighborhood playboy.

Can Sam’s furry charm bring Ryan and Kristen together?

What readers are saying about Walking Sam:

“An uplifting story that leaves the reader with a warm smile and feeling that something really good happened!” – Maryann Bruner

“Walking Sam is a beautiful, warm, loving story.” - Susan Schleicher of The Book Bag

“I LOVED this book, it was a very moving book of loss and love!” – Diane E. Damico

“I love all of Deanna's books. They keep you involved in the stories and I hate to put the books down.” – Shirley Dodge

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Publication date

March 29, 2016
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"Enjoy the touching G-rated story about two perfectly matched people endearingly missing all the cues and clues that would lead to their mutual happy ending." - Publisher's Weekly

About the Author

Deanna Lynn Sletten is the author of MAGGIE'S TURN, FINDING LIBBIE, ONE WRONG TURN, and several other titles. She writes heartwarming women's fiction and romance novels with unforgettable characters. She has also written one middle-grade novel that takes you on the adventure of a lifetime. Deanna believes in fate, destiny, love at first sight, soul mates, second chances, and happily ever afters, and her novels reflect that.

Deanna is married and has two grown children. When not writing, she enjoys walking the wooded trails around her home with her beautiful Australian Shepherd or relaxing on the lake in the summer.

Deanna loves hearing from her readers. Connect with her at:

Her blog: deannalynnsletten.com
Twitter: @DeannaLSletten
Facebook: facebook.com/DeannaLynnSletten

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BLVIWQU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Deanna Lynn Sletten (March 29, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 29, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1791 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 211 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

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- #951 in Family Saga Fiction
- #6,179 in Romance (Kindle Store)

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Deanna Lynn Sletten is the author of THE ONES WE LEAVE BEHIND, THE WOMEN OF GREAT HERON LAKE, MISS ETTA, MAGGIE’S TURN, FINDING LIBBIE, THE LAKE HARRIET SERIES and several other titles. She writes heartwarming women’s fiction, historical fiction, and romance novels with unforgettable characters. Deanna has recently delved into the murder mystery genre with her new series, THE RACHEL EMERY SERIES.

Deanna is married and has two grown children. When not writing, she enjoys walking the wooded trails around her home with her new Aussie puppy, traveling, and relaxing on the lake.

Deanna loves hearing from her readers. Connect with her at:

Her website: http://www.deannalsletten.com

Blog: http://www.deannalynnsletten.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deannalynnsletten

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/deannalsletten

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A really good book!

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019

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This was a very interesting story, well written, & really held your interest. I find most of this author's books are quite good. It made me even want to read the next book in the series.

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A nicer love story

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018

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Kristen buys a lovely older house in a leafy suburb. As a nurse of cancer patients, she needs times to relax. Her next-door neighbour is grieving after losing his beautiful sweet wife to a brain aneurysim after only 10 years of marriage.
He is persuaded to go out for drinks and womanizing one night, and ends up sleeping with a very young woman.
His neighbour sees her leaving in the morning. She in turn is seeing a man 18 years older than her. He is a 50-year old specialist. Neither Ryan nor Kristen know the Lord. Ryan's mother has cancer. Kristen says:
"I’ll send positive thoughts your mother’s way she’d said before they’d ended the call. " Kristen is nursing a young leukaemia victim. She seems to influence both Kristen and Ryan whose golden retriever named Sam, short for Samantha, towards fairh in God. Kristen remarks:
“Yes. She’s so incredible. She’s been through so much in her short life, yet I’ve never seen her angry or discouraged. She has an inner-strength well beyond her years. And a deep faith that keeps her moving forward.” Kristen smiled. “Sometimes I truly believe she has an angel on her shoulder. A special angel that whispers sweetness into her ear. Maybe it’s even Gabriel, the messenger angel who she says she’s named after.” “I think you’re right,” Ryan said, once again feeling the warmth he’d felt when he met Gabbie. “There is definitely something ethereal about her. She nearly glowed when I first saw her. There’s something very special about her.” Kristen gazed up into his eyes. “I could tell that you felt it, too. Bradley thinks I’m silly when I speak about Gabbie that way. He doesn’t see anything past scientific fact. But you do.” “Sometimes you have to believe in more than you can see or touch. Otherwise, life would be a sad, boring existence.”
Neither Ryan nor Kristen realise that God has given them borh a second chance at happiness. I really enjoyed this story but felt frustrated that 94% of the story was about them being with the wrong partners and denying their feelings for each other. The next 1% wrapped the story up when they both realised and acknowledged their love for each other. That would not have happened either, unless Nichole, the young two-night stand girl with coloured stripes in her hair, explained to Ryan that Kristen loved him and sobbingly turned to him when her patient died, after telling her nurse to "keep Ryan."
The rest of the book was credits and other stories, so if I must find fault with this very enjoyable story, my question is, "Why take 94% of the book to build up towards the inevitable marriage and 1% dealing with their joyful recognition of their love, them selling her house and moving into his, his mother being declared cancer-free, their wrdding, and 3 months later, her pregnancy? Its nice that she finally met trustworthy men in his family. I would think that the focus of these stories could change to how happy married life can be if a couple respect God's laws of waiting to be married instead of having casual intimate relationships as both Ryan and Kristen did.

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Kerry L. Reis

Well Written Hallmark Style HEA Romance

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2016

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For ten years, Amanda was Ryan’s wife, life, and soul partner, until three years ago, when Amanda suddenly passed away. For Ryan, besides his tech sales job, his life since then has been the suburban home with Amanda’s preserved office in a backyard cottage, several photographs of Ryan and Amanda carefully placed in every room of the main home, two frisky cats, Punkin and Spice, and a gentle female golden retriever named Sam. However, friends and co-workers are pressing him to move on, and Ryan knows that changes are coming when his longtime next-door neighbors put their home up for sale. Maybe that is why he lets one of his co-workers convince him to go to a bar on a Friday night and gets him to connect with a young woman for the night. For nurse Kristen, buying the suburban home helped her assuage the remaining hurt of her earlier divorce and cheating ex-husband, although she did notice the young woman leaving her handsome new neighbor’s home as she was moving in, reinforcing her sense of male unreliability and making her feel comfortable with her current safe relationship with an older well-off doctor. Yet, leave it to Sam to bring Ryan and Kristen together and get them to know each other on shared walks with Sam. Will it be enough to help them get past their histories and insecurities? Yes, the story framework is classic Hallmark Channel movie romance where the reader knows where the tale will end up between these two, but it is well written and craftily structured to let the reader understand the insecurities that create the light assumptions the main characters form about each other preventing them from completing the connection we know will have to eventually happen – and there is a strong body of readers and viewers who enjoy and find comfort in a well-crafted HEA romance.

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Sunflower girl

Loved this book!😊

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2019

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This is a very heartfelt story with characters who seem like friends you can relate to. Kristen and Ryan were next door neighbors who shared walks in the park with the star of the book, Sam. Sam is a golden retriever who fell in love with Kristen when they first met after Kirsten moved in next door. While Ryan was still grieving from the death of his wife three years before, Kirsten was dating a successful, older doctor. To find out how Sam keeps these two interested, you'll have to read for yourself! Many obstacles are thrown in the way and you finally feel that this friendship is not going to work!

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drp6149

Sometimes you need to wake up and see who's important to you

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2020

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Ryan is a lonely man whose wife of 10 years dropped dead 3 years ago. All he has is a Labrador named Sam and 2 orange tabby cats.
Kristen is a divorcee (who is a children's pediatric oncology nurse) with a severe distrust of most men and an older boyfriend who is a doctor and who is safe and dependable.
When Kristen moves next door to Ryan they meet but refuse to get interested in each other - neither is willing to trust the other. Sam is responsible for introducing them to each other and gradually helping to bring them out of their shells, even though they don't cooperate as Sam wants.
This book has surprises and twists and is very good reading. There are a couple of sad spots, but they help make the story.

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A brilliant read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2019

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Really enjoyed reading this. Very hard to put the book down when I had other things that needed doing 5*

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God read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2018

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I really enjoyed reading this book. Easy reading and a nice story line.

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i enjoyed a nice quite read many

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2017

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2017

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I enjoyed reading this book, easy to get into and light story.

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