Skye (Lanie McAuley) loses her job at a record label in Nashville in the run up to Christmas and with no other prospects she accepts an offer from an acquaintance at another label, Ryan (Bo Yokely), to manage her estranged father Harris (Bailey Chase) on his Christmas tour.
It is a rollercoaster of a journey and requires patience and fortitude
and the help of her mother (Lauren Holly) her best friend Tiffany (Anita Yung)
and of course Ryan with whom she finds love along the way.
Having grown up in the foster care system after the death of her mother at the age of 9, New York City social worker Vanessa Hall (Aimee Teegarden) has no living relatives, or so she believed, but then she receives the results from her Family Tree DNA test.
Vanessa learns that there is a positive paternity test and that her
biological father is Richard Hendricks (James Tupper), who is alive and well
living only an hour's drive away in Barrington, Connecticut with his wife
Pauline Kendall Cross and their three adolescent children, Caitlin Ava Telek,
Aidan (Colby McClendon), and Emilia (Georgia Mae Orchard).
After the two meet and talk, she is invited to spend a few days with
them, to get to know them before she meets the extended family on Christmas
Eve, so she accepts and Richard arranges for family friend, Kris (Andrew
W. Walker), to give her a lift.
After some initial unease on both sides, Vanessa and the family make
an emotional connection, and she and Kris make a different kind of connection.
Having missed out on a permanent position in New York, Hazel Stanley (Tiya Sircar) travels to her home in Chicago to spend Christmas with her father, Ted (Sugith Varughese) and finds the family bakery in a bad state of repair and in financial trouble.
She also discovers that her father has hired a new
baker James Meadows (Marc Bendavid) who is also doing some of the repairs and
they do not have the smoothest of beginnings.
The biggest shock however was finding out that the
bakery across the road taking all of their business was owned by her former
best friend Shelby (Kyana Teresa).
The only solution to their financial problems and
to keep the bakery operating, was to enter a gingerbread baking contest
offering $100,000 prize.
As they prepare romance blossoms between Hazel and
James although some misunderstandings threaten to keep them apart and an
unlikely partnership is needed for the competition.
Rachel (Carmel Amit), the boss at Kemp Street
Management sends Emma Bloom (Becca Tobin) to her hometown to convince famous
pop star Tyler Thorn (Matthew MacCaull) to sign with their agency after
discovering that they were high school sweethearts.
Tyler had already headed home to Vermont, after
firing his manager, to spend Christmas with his family for the first time in
years.
When Tyler and Emma meet there is an instant
chemistry between them, but they are immediately caught up in the collective
effort to save the annual Christmas Carol Celebration so there never seems to
be the perfect moment for her to make her pitch.
The longer it went unsaid, the more difficult it
seemed to be, but will a trip down Memory Lane allow Emma to finally admit her
feelings for Tyler.
He stood in the cold crisp night
Beneath the moon and
the stars
And looked at the
majestic vista
Imagining such a
perfect night sky
Two thousand years
before
When love was taken from him
He was left bereft,
and his heart stopped
And his world was
transformed
To a place of ice and
snow
Where his cold heart,
Once over flowing with
love,
Froze solid in his
chest.
So he came to like the
winter
With its long cold
nights
And short dismal days
He found comfort in
the season
And its bitter
unfriendly ways
Only Christmas spoiled
it for him,
Disrupting his misery,
With its joyous music,
Gaily decorated shops,
And of course, its
joviality
But then one day out of
the blue
As he tried to avoid
the jollity
It happened, his heart
began to thaw
All because of an Elf
Or to be more precise
A girl in the green
tights, pointy shoes,
Brightly coloured
tunic and a cute hat
All it took was one
smile
For the connection to be
made
And she had him body and
soul
Although he was
unaware
It was a mutual
attraction
Because she didn’t
show her hand
And played hard to get
She wanted him, but
she made him work
To win her, to pursue
her
To prove that he was
worthy
So it wasn’t until
Christmas Eve
That the Elf yielded
to the Grinch
And they kissed by the
light of the moon
Before attending
midnight mass
The first time I met
My pretty little Miss
We needed mistletoe
To share a Christmas
Kiss
Now when I meet
With my pretty Miss
We need no artificial
aid
For us to share a kiss
And when we meet
And we share a kiss
Every day is Christmas
For me and my little
Miss
