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Charlie isn't in the mood for Christmas cheer...

Her boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, her mother has absconded with her latest husband for the holidays, and - adding insult to (literal) injury - her flat has just been destroyed by a gas leak.

Single, mildly concussed and temporarily homeless, Charlie heads to Devon to spend the festive season looking after Cosy Canine Cottages, her cousin Jez's dog-care centre. And if she's not exactly a dog person, well, no one has to know...

But her plans for a quiet Christmas are soon dashed. Peggy the pregnant beagle and Malcolm the deaf Great Dane seem determined to keep her up all night. A strange man has been casing her cousin's house. And where is Cal, the unbearably patronizing but disturbingly handsome local vet, when she needs him?

This Christmas will Charlie embrace the unexpected and stumble into love?