Plot summary

Chinese-American Suzy Yung has succeeded in everything she’s done in her drive to be the best. As a Los Angeles-based architect, she is on the cusp of a promotion at her firm, right on her planned track. However she learns that she is competing against one of her colleagues, Marshall, for the promotion, he who, despite being a talented architect like her, has always greased the wheels as his way to be noticed above others. The promotion will be awarded to whoever’s design is chosen by their client for a major project, the designs due by New Year’s Eve in a couple of weeks, which means that Suzy’s trip home to small town Hampton Meadows, Maine, for the holidays will be a working one. She finds upon her arrival home that there is pressure for her to participate in the annual gingerbread contest in which the six communities in Happy Valley compete, this year for a $15,000 grand prize, the team from Hampton Meadows earmarking that money if they win for much needed renovations to the …