After fifty-three years of self-imposed solitude in his Missouri trailer, seventy-one-year-old Leo Gable's quiet life is upended when a thieving, impossibly ugly mutt named Bandit appears at his door. Through a series of stolen sneakers and garden gnomes, the dog slowly drags Leo into community—with a talkative neighbor, a struggling farm widow, and a young woman running her father's feed store. But when Bandit leads Leo through a snowstorm to find a half-frozen boy named Caleb, this unlikely trio discovers that family isn't about blood—it's about who shows up. A warm, humorous story about second chances and the dogs who save us.
