Plot summary

It’s the approach to Christmas in New York City. Olivia Bennett and Edward Taylor, a former ballerina turned dance teacher and a small business consultant respectively, have long taken themselves out of the dating market, Olivia who has not felt ready to date since the passing of her husband Nathan eight years ago – her adolescent daughter, Maeryn, who doesn’t remember her father – and Edward who is always traveling for work, he considering himself technically homeless and thus not in a position to devote himself to any one person in any one place, his attempts to do so in the past always having resulted in failure. They meet when they both come to the rescue of a poor, elderly woman named Gertrude, who loses her $80 – four twenty dollar bills – which was her Christmas Club money for Christmas gifts. Over the course of the holiday season, they, who admit to themselves that there was an immediate attraction and connection, constantly run into each other, often in relation to Gertrude’s…