Max Pirbright's luck is out. His car is clapped out; he is out of a job; his wife has left him for a millionaire and he is broke. His Christmas is likely to be lonely and dull. Then he has a chance encounter with a lost teenager and everything changes in an unexpected way. The few days leading up to Christmas are anything but boring.
Sixteen-year-old Philip was delighted when his new neighbor's daughter, tiny little Josie, appointed herself his helper while he worked on an old pushbike. She was seriously cute and so, it turned out, was her mom. Even better they both seemed wonderfully careless when it came to giving him glimpses of their charms.
Being woken up by someone touching your bare bottom is generally either a very good or a very bad thing. It takes little Lizzy a while before she's sure which it is.