Plain Jane by Fern Michaels
Jane and Connie are on their way back to the dorms when several men pull them off into the bushes and Connie is raped. She's the head cheerleader and most popular and is to be wed to the football hero. They didn't want Jane she's overweight and ugly the men say.
What happens next you can never imagine. Many years later Jane is now a psychiatrist and not only has a practice but a radio call in show where she talks others through their problems. She's had enough of the career and now wants to change and run a doggy care business.
She collects clues to solve the mystery. She has a love interest Mike that not only helps with her career choices but her whole life.
The house she lives in also is haunted and many a night she's awakened telling her she needs to call or do something...
Tragedy occurs and she let a friend, Betty down...and now a stalker is on her trail...
Love hearing how the other couple helps with the dogs as they are rescued and cared for.