![Teri Polo](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/67k0q1YYVIeMd0wZalfqJ2FYLuu.jpg)
Sally Brown, a successful children's book author and Army widow loses her late husband's German Shepherd, Buddy, only to later find him adopted by a new family - single father Mark Green and his teenage daughter Emma. Each finds a sense of Christmas spirit as they struggle to decide with whom the dog really belongs.