Veteran's Christmas K-9 by Lisa Jordan

He never wanted to be anyone’s hero, until he met one special K-9...

Haunted by a mission gone wrong, former Marine Lucas Rose keeps to himself on the family ranch running their service dog training program. So when city girl Juliette McCord asks him to train her poodle, Polly, to become a gluten detection dog, Lucas isn’t sure he’s the best man for the job. Still reeling from her celiac disease diagnosis, Juliette insists she needs his help. As they begin to spend more time together, Lucas sees that there’s more to Juliette than meets the eye. And their Christmas K-9 arrangement might just lead to forever...