Jon Katz (Get this book) Best-selling author Katz brings readers the intimate story of falling in love with a woman and her extremely protective pet dog. "There was me, sixty-one, broke and bewildered," writes Katz, the prolific author of books about pets and, in particular, dogs. "And there was Maria, a sad, brooding fiber artist in her forties...seeking to find her lost creative soul...and finally there was Frieda, aka "the Helldog," a Rottweiler-shepherd mix who had been cruelly abandoned." What starts out as a story of despair--for Katz and Maria, as their respective long-term marriages fell apart, and for Frieda, who was raised as a guard dog and then abandoned only to spend years living in the wild--turns to joy as faith, trust, friendship and love replace fear, extreme panic attacks and an overprotectiveness bordering on dangerous. Bittersweet in its telling, Katz reminds readers of the importance of human and animal connections--Kirkus
