Plot summary

It’s the approach to Christmas. Having gotten the travel bug from traveling around the world with her parents when she was growing up, Emory Blake is now a writer with Journeying, a travel magazine. She is planning on spending Christmas alone like she has many years in her adult life in being on assignment in the far corners of the globe more often than not. William, her boyfriend of six months, just broke up with her in needing a stable life as a couple, he realizing that she wouldn’t settle in one place, at least never for and with him. Veronica Giles, her editor and best friend, does give her a last minute assignment due December 23rd, it different from all the others before: write about a traditional American Christmas in whatever form Emory chooses. Corporate attorney Scott Hays has been a widower for a few years, he not yet having started to date again. Ever since his wife passed, he, his adolescent daughter Katy Hays, and his mother Marilyn Hays have not placed any effort on a …