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Copyright © 2019 by Beth Lavin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kendrick, Beth, author.

Title: In dog we trust / Beth Kendrick.

Description: First Edition. | New York: Berkley, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018028815 | ISBN 9780399584251 (paperback) | ISBN 9780399584268 (ebook)

Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Humorous.

Classification: LCC PS3611.E535 I5 2019 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018028815

First Edition: January 2019

Cover photographs: Puppies by HTeam/Shutterstock;

Blue Ribbon by Danny E. Hooks/Shutterstock

Cover design by Katie Anderson

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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