What Is It That Leaves You Breathless? Moments of beauty; moments of loss. It was funny how both of these things could take your breath away: life's beauty, and life's losses. It was like getting punched in the gut, losing those that you loved. You found yourself on the ground, decimated and wondering if you could ever go on. How could you go on, but how could you not go on? What was the alternative, suicide? That was no alternative for Charlie McAllister, and so he was going on, day by day, moment by moment. The saddest book ever written, that's what his life would be, if he was to put it down into a book. Losing his parents, losing his brothers and sisters, and now losing his wife and his lovely daughters. The grief was immense, almost unbearable, but then Scoop came into his life - a kind and lovely dog which Charlie had scooped up from the road after she'd been hit by a car. Scoop, her name was appropriate, as she was now scooping Charlie back up, living with Charlie and showing Charlie that he could find joy again in life, and love again, too. Life doesn't always move in the ways which you envision, and "Breathless" is no exception. An unexpected friendship between a man and a dog, and a testament to the power of fate and the resilience of the heart to go on, this lyrical and heartfelt story with its surprising and compelling unfurling will show you what it means to find true and lasting love, then leave you as if in the arms of a lover, feeling breathless.