title: Lost Souls: FOUND! Inspiring Stories About Northern-Breed Dogs
author:  Kyla Duffy 
description: Kyla Duffy and Lowrey Mumford are dog lovers who wish to use the Lost Souls: FOUND! series of books to raise awareness about dog adoption and generate funds for rescue groups through the donation of a portion of each sale. Lowrey knows journalism, and Kyla has experience in entrepreneurship; this has created the perfect synergy to launch the Happy Tails Books project. Lowrey has two adopted dogs of her own. Kyla has two adopted dogs and continues to foster dogs for a dog rescue organization.
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  [Dedication](Contents.xhtml#Dedication)
  
  
  This book is dedicated to the
  
  
  memory of my beloved Daisy.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](Contents.xhtml#Acknowledgments)
  
  
  THIS is the last book in my Cupid, Texas series, and I hate to leave the
  Trans-Pecos region. There’s no other place like it in Texas. The people there
  are a different breed—rugged, independent, hard working and long
  suffering—molded by the extremes of climate and topography.
  
  
  While my husband and I were visiting the area, a bigger dog attacked our New
  American shepherd puppy, Daisy, as we walked her on a leash. We raced her to
  the local vet, but, alas, there was nothing they could do to save her life,
  and we had to have her put to sleep. Losing her was so very hard, and I left a
  bit of my heart in the Fort Davis Mountains that awful day. Most everyone in
  the small close-knit town heard about our loss, and many ca