A dog named Villain, doing his best to live up to his name.

An ultimatum from her landlord.

A business that's struggling to survive.

Could things get any worse?

Edie Calhoun has always been a disappointment to her parents. She's not fashionable enough, not talented enough, and in the forthright opinion of her successful father, is wasting her talents on her fledgling graphic design business.

It all becomes too much when her charming but feckless brother Alex begs her to look after his dog Villain while he takes his latest girlfriend to Hawaii for Valentine's Day. Edie, always a pushover, finds herself trying to meet deadlines while coping with a pooch that seems determined to wreck her life as well as the house.

Then Jake Miller turns up at the door: a dog obedience trainer that her brother hired just before he flew out. Edie is suspicious of Jake immediately: handsome like her brother, he is just as charming. There's no way, she tells herself, that she's falling for that! Edie has watched her brother leave a trail of broken hearts, and she knows the type only too well.

But Edie can't help thawing as Jake works his magic with Villain. Before long, she's just as enraptured with the dog trainer as her pooch—but then her world starts to disintegrate.

Edie has no savings, an eviction looming, and now Jake seems to have fallen under the spell of a curvaceous blonde called Sherri!