[finished 7/14/14]    This novel was a nice summer read—moving but not too strenuous. The novel begins as Rocky, a psychologist, finds her veterinary husband, Bob, dead on the bathroom floor. In the subsequent months, she struggles to deal with his death and ends up taking a leave of absence from her job and fleeing to Peak’s Island off the coast of Maine. There she takes on the job of Animal Control Warden—something as far away from her old life as she can think of. […]