Be My Little Valentine: Shanny’s Surprise by Layla Dorine

As Happy Holidays gives way to Happy Valentine’s Day, the stockings in the window displays are replaced with hearts: big hearts, little hearts, orange, pink, and purple hearts, candy hearts, paper hearts, heart-shaped pillows, and stuffed teddy bears holding giant heart-shaped messages making declarations of love and loyalty.
Too bad Chocolate makes Shanny hyper, and most flower bouquets make him sneeze. Besides, the sight of them wilting and starting to die has always seemed like the wrong kind of message on Valentine’s Day and the wrong kind of metaphor for love.
He’s messy and a bit of a hot mess all the way around, but he’s got an amazing group of friends who have been more family to him than the one he was born into ever was, though he longs for someone special who won’t mind letting him be the kid he never got to be. He thought that could be Tiny, but lately, his big friend has been frustrated with him.
Can the addition of Riggs, a large, fiercely protective man with a soft spot for misfits, be just the bridge Tiny and Shanny have been missing? Can the fierce pup and the boy he adores find the perfect person to care for them both, or will Rigg’s heart prove to be only be big enough for one of them?