Book excerpt: Welcome to Puddle Lake, where you can sink into Rachel Dove’s cozy vet story! Keeping her distance… …is harder than she first thought! After a painful divorce, hospice nurse Susannah Harkin finds solace in a Yorkshire village with rescue pup Hendrix by her side. Until Dr. Chris Jennings disturbs her peace. Straight-talking Susannah clashes with the brooding new vet, and the fallout has the locals gossiping for weeks! Then, thrown together to host a charity drive, they find their sparks of anger turning into flames of attraction. Can Susannah’s sunny nature thaw Chris’s guarded heart? From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.