Wordplay 2026
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Appy has spent almost a decade running agility courses with Harry by her side. Every jump, every tunnel, every clean round has been another conversation between dog and handler. Another reminder that they're both at their happiest when they're running together.
But every athlete reaches the finish line eventually.
As Appy settles into retirement, Harry struggles to let go of the life they've shared, while Louis wonders if suggesting getting another dog would help heal the emptiness or only deepen it. When an energetic young rescue Bearded Collie unexpectedly enters their lives, all three of them must learn that welcoming a new beginning doesn't mean leaving the past behind.
A bittersweet story about growing older, learning to let go, and discovering that love is never replaced.
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- Part 1 of Wordplay 2026
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When Zayn and Liam adopt Cody, an older rescue dog whose previous owner has passed away, they expect to spend his golden years giving him a comfortable home.
What they don't expect is to inherit pieces of another life. An old letter, a favourite bakery and a bench overlooking the river. Familiar routines that Cody refuses to forget. As they follow in the pawprints of the man who loved him first, Zayn and Liam slowly come to know Arthur through the ordinary moments he shared with his best friend.
Told across two intertwining timelines, a story about grief, second chances, and the remarkable way dogs carry love from one family to the next. Because a dog's heart is never divided, it simply grows large enough to hold everyone who has ever called it home.
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- Part 2 of Wordplay 2026
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The breakup is surprisingly practical.
Harry keeps the townhouse.
Louis moves into a flat that doesn't allow dogs
So Harry also keeps Maple, which means Louis keeps showing up to walk her.
Maple keeps both of them, together.
Three walks a day were supposed to be for the dog. The walks become cups of tea, shared dinners and quiet evenings. Somewhere between routines and ordinary days, two people who thought they had fallen out of love begin finding their way back. Neither Harry nor Louis realises they're quietly rebuilding a life together until it already feels like home.
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- Part 3 of Wordplay 2026
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Louis only agrees to foster a puppy for one weekend.
Ink has other plans.
Between stolen gloves, buried croissants, a suspicious number of veterinary appointments, and a mysterious man who always walks an English Springer Spaniel on a bright red lead, Louis slowly discovers that some dogs choose their forever home long before the humans realise it.
Unfortunately for Harry, keeping his identity as both Louis' vet and the man behind the sunglasses turns out to be far more difficult than treating an overenthusiastic puppy.
Louis fosters one black puppy. The puppy commits approximately seventeen crimes. Harry accidentally lets Louis develop a crush on him twice. Ruby is the only competent one.
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- Part 4 of Wordplay 2026
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Harry is a respiratory nurse, which means he knows perfectly well that a persistent cough, unexplained exhaustion, and getting breathless on the stairs are things worth paying attention to.
Unfortunately, Harry is also a terrible patient.
Louis, his respiratory-doctor boyfriend whom he's definitely not sneaking into cupboards to kiss during their shifts, is beginning to suspect something isn't quite right. But he's not the first to notice.
That honour belongs to Atlas, a patient's medical alert service dog, who suddenly decides that Harry is his problem too.
Harry insists he's fine.
Louis isn't convinced.
Atlas knows better.
And if Harry and Louis could stop trying to kiss for five minutes, they might realise the dog isn't interrupting them at all.
He's trying to do his job.
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- Part 5 of Wordplay 2026