Plot

Joy Holbrook is a market researcher about to get a sweet promotion just in time for the holidays. But she receives an urgent phone call from home and rushes back to help her Aunt recover from surgery, reuniting with her former crush, Ben.

Joy Holbrook is an intuitive market researcher in DC who has captured the attention of the account's CEO and is about to get a sweet promotion, just in time for the holidays. She receives an urgent phone call from home and she rushes back to Crystal Falls, NC to help her Aunt recover from surgery and is reunited with her former crush, Ben. To keep her Aunt focused on healing, Joy volunteers to take Ruby's place with the town's legendary baking competition, the "Cookie Crawl," much to the amusement of Ben who knows Joy has absolutely no idea of the Herculean task before her. Though Joy initially refuses Ben's attempts to "co-captain," she begins to soften and let him in, all the while remembering that there truly is no place like home.—Happy_Evil_Dude

Joy Holbrook might be all work and no play, but that changes when her Aunt Ruby takes a fall before the holidays. Joy has to take a leave of absence to run the family farm. Joy meets her old friend Ben, the town's handsome accountant, who has helped Aunt Ruby decorate for the annual Christmas Home Tour-and win-the last several years. He's not about to let some drop-in niece break their winning streak. Will the magic of Christmas help Joy to open her heart to a new life and find her everlasting joy?—Happy_Evil_Dude

Ben Andrews is North Carolina small town Cherry Falls' Captain Christmas, the force behind the annual traditions, with Ruby Dempsey, who is disabled by a fall. her niece, DC-based intuitive market researcher Joy Holbrook, comes spend Christmastime helping her, and naively accepts taking over her seasonal activities. That forces Ben and Joy, childhood exes, to collaborate -and compete friendly- on the cookies and gingerbread competitions, gradually allowing them to grow closer together again wile she re-appreciates her local roots.—KGF Vissers