She came home to sell her grandmother’s cottage. She never expected to find a reason to stay—or a man who might make staying feel like home.

After a painful divorce and the loss of the career she once loved, Chantal Davies has one simple plan: restore her grandmother’s seaside cottage, sell it, and return to Vancouver to start over.

Then she meets her next-door neighbour, Anderson Cole.

A single father carrying burdens of his own, Anderson has no room in his carefully ordered life for complications. But as Chantal settles into Sunshine Bay, friendship between them comes easily—and becomes harder to ignore.

There’s a shy rescue cat to care for, a grieving twelve-year-old girl who needs someone to believe in her, an unfinished tapestry waiting to be completed, and a struggling fibre arts cooperative that draws Chantal deeper into the community her grandmother loved.

With every passing day, the life Chantal planned seems less important—and the life she never imagined begins to feel possible.

But before she can choose a new future, Chantal must decide whether she’s brave enough to open her heart again.

Paws for Healing is a heartwarming later-in-life romance about second chances, chosen family, community, and discovering that sometimes home is where you least expect to find it.