Spirit Dogs: Life Between Lives

This story continues where Spirit Dogs: Heroes In Heaven left off, with Ivan in dog heaven, fraught with despair at being separated from his beloved Sarah—until he is put in charge of five new arrivals and discovers that he can visit Sarah whenever he chooses. Thus begins Ivan's adventure as a leader of a group and a huge sense of self-doubt that causes him to be sent on a dangerous mission.

The group's purpose, together, is to discover what it means to be a "whole dog," what they learned in their previous lives and what they still need to learn in order to become "whole." The group consists of Beauregard, an arrogant show Poodle; Murphy, a timid, shivering Spaniel-mix; Jolly, a big, white family pet; Carl, a Lhasa Apso who lived with a pair of psychoanalysts near Central Park; and Stealth, a fighting pit-bull terrier.