
Assist A Bitch Out

This HaBO is from Sam, who’s hoping to trace down this romance:
I’m making an attempt to recollect a e-book that feels prefer it ought to be straightforward, however there are such a lot of books that characteristic these tropes & archetypes on this setting that I can’t get it.
So…modern: cis-het; principally, if not all, white characters; low-to-medium warmth stage (I feel).
Small-ish city, male principal character is a primary responder (extra seemingly sheriff/deputy, however possibly EMT/firefighter); feminine principal character both returned after being away or new to city. I’m *fairly* sure the e-book opens with him discovering her large-ish canine operating unfastened (probably having a detailed name with a car?).
As I recall, she drives a smaller automotive (with a stick shift?), like a VW Beetle or Mini Cooper, and the city is kinda hilly. The canine is necessary to the FMC and comes up within the story fairly typically, however I don’t assume she works with animals. Don’t keep in mind what the battle was that they couldn’t simply be collectively straight away.
The e-book has the texture of a Jill Shalvis or early Kristan Higgins, however I’ve appeared over their titles fairly fastidiously. It’s def not KH, and I don’t assume it’s a Jill Shallvis (Head Over Heels appears closest, however isn’t it). It’s not Debbie Burns or Lucy Gilmore; don’t assume it’s a Lucy Rating.
Undecided whether or not it’s a part of a collection, or a stand-alone. I learn it between 2013 and 2018, but it surely is perhaps older. I’ve interrogated the opposite romance readers at my library, and none of us can determine what it’s—though all of them need to learn it now too.
Can we HaBO?