Saved By Sam

Canine Cupids #3

by Deirdre O'Dare

Another installment in the best-selling Canine Cupid series.... As he struggles to get back on his feet after the horrors of service as a medic in the Middle East war, Roy Dunham tends bar in a quiet club. The sudden entrance of K-9 Officer Samson, a Belgian Malinois, and his handsome "human" partner Craig Rommel startles Roy, and the cop's attitude puts him off. Roy's opinion soon changes, however, after Sam and Craig save him from drug-driven violence. He returns the favor by tending their gunshot wounds, and before long, Roy finds himself hoping the policeman and the dog will become permanent parts of his life. Can Sam be the key to winning Roy's way into Craig Rommel's well-protected heart? Genres: Gay / Contemporary / Action / Adventure / BDSM (Light) / Series

Genres: M M Romance, Romance, Gay, Contemporary

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Deirdre O'Dare, who also writes milder (roughly PG-13 rated) romance as Gwynn Morgan, has loved reading and writing since early childhood. Writing came naturally to Deirdre/Gwynn, who scribed her first simple verse at age eight. An avid reader, she devoured hundreds of books while growing up and later as an adult. Somewhere along the way she found romance and then romance with more explicit and detailed love scenes. “Ah ha,” said she, “I think I have found my niche!” In the last decade after leaving her "day job" as a civilian employee of the U. S. Army, she finally settled into romantic fiction writing as a second career. Deirdre has a growing number of shorts and novellas, all published by Amber Heat.

With Irish and Welsh ancestry on both sides of her family, Deirdre has always been enthralled by the history and customs of the Celtic peoples as they have come down to us. The Mother Goddess idea particularly resonates with her as well as the notion that physical expressions of love between consenting couples are both a divine gift and a sacred duty to honor the Mother. Deirdre admits her favorite heroes are cops, cowboys and Celts.

Reviews

[Elisa Rolle]

Roy is a 30 years old doctor with some bad experiences in the near past (he has served as Navy medic in Iraq) and some more bad experiences in the long ago past of his adolescence. When he retires from the Navy, he seems not be able to start with his normal life again and accepts the help of a friend (a special friend, who sometimes could be also a willing bed partner) and a work as bartender.

But one night drug dealer enters his bar when he is alone and Craig, a cop, and Sam, his Belgian Malinois partner, rescue him, gaining both a gun wound. Roy tends them both and some weeks after Craig comes to him. Criag is a strong and somewhat aloof man, but seems to be pretty involved in Roy. And so they share an hot sexy night, but Roy has some special needs: to bear his past he has entwined sexual pleasure with the pain. Will Coby be up to satisky his need? Or will Roy learn that is not always necessary to feel pain if there is true love?

Another very short story, 40 pages, with a lot thrown in the melting pot. In this case Deirdre O'Dare manages to tell us all is needed, but still I have the feeling to be swept by a tornado: a lot of info in so few pages are really a blurr. Again I will like it to be a little longer.

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[Deirdre · Rating 3 out of 5]

On Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 I read Saved by Sam from O'Dare's CANINE CUPIDS anthology. This is the first story I read by Deirdre. It started off really nice, but tried to put too much in one story. Appeared incomplete in that there seemed to be a whole backstory (prequel) before this one that explained everyone's past that the narrator repeatedly referred to. It seemed like it was going to be a sweet take then it turned suddenly into a BDSM story. Gee whiz it was the last thing I was expecting. Then they moved in together after one night - come on! Bartender / Navy veteran / medic / PTSD / K9 officer / wounded / past / Malinois / partners / lonely / seemed too needy

[Jen · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is my second time through this one but half way through I just couldn't read any more of it. How did I get through it the first time?

It's one of those titles that's so obviously written by a woman. I swear there must be a master listing of all words that a romance must have in it and this one has them all to a nauseating degree.