title: Rescue Smiles: Favorite Animal Stories of Love and Liberation
author:  Heather Leughmyer 
description: About the Editors:<br /><br /><b>Heather Leughmyer</b> is the author of <i>Adopting Adele</i>, <i>A Rat's Guide to Owning a Human</i>, and <i>If Your Tears Were Human</i>, and co-editor of <i>Rescue Smiles</i>. She is also the founder of Happy Endings Rat Rescue, and a graduate ofIndiana-Purdue University with a B.A. in Writing and Linguistics. <br /><br />Writing has been a passion of hers for as long as she has advocated for animals. <br /><br />She lives in Columbia City, Indiana, with her husband, daughter, and several animal companions.<br /><b><br />Tamira Thayne</b> is the author of <i>The Wrath of Dog, The King's Tether, Foster Doggie Insanity, </i>and<i> Capitol in Chains, </i>and the co-editor of<i> Rescue Smiles </i>and <i>Unchain My Heart.</i><br /><br />Tamira pioneered the anti-tethering movement in America, forming and leadingthe nonprofit Dogs Deserve Better for 13 years. During her time on thefront lines of animal activism and rescue she took on plenty of bad guys (often failing miserably); her swan song culminated in the purchase and transformation of Michael Vick's dogfighting compound to a chained-dogrescue and rehabilitation center. <br /><br />Tamira's spent 878 hourschained to a doghouse on behalf of the voiceless in front of statecapitol buildings nationwide, and worked with her daughter to take on aschool system's cat dissection program, garnering over 100,000signatures against the practice.<br /><br />In 2016 she founded Who Chains You, publishing books by and for animal activists and rescuers.
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  “Sweet and raw, beautiful and gritty. This heartwarming romance about the
  power of healing was everything I wanted in a story.”
  
  
  —Sarah Morgenthaler, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Tourist Attraction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ELYSIA WHISLER
  
  
  rescue you
  
  
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  **Elysia Whisler** was raised in Texas, Italy, Alaska, Mississippi, Nebraska,
  Hawaii and Virginia, in true military fashion. A mother, a massage therapist
  and a CrossFit trainer, Elysia is dedicated to portraying strong women, both
  in life and in her works. She lives in Virginia with her family, including her
  large brood of cat and dog rescues, who vastly outnumber the humans.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Magdalena—  
  and all those who fight for the ones who can’t
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Chapter One](One.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](Two.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](Three.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](Four.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Five](Five.xhtml)
  
  
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