Myriad snowflakes fall
Flakes, infinite in number
Crystals of purest
white
Settle while we
slumber
Early the next morning
In the gloomy light
A pure white blanket
Was greeted with
delight
The kids were excited
but
The presents took
their focus
For their parents it
was magical
To have a White
Christmas
Young assistant pastor Olivia (Demetria McKinney) is sent to Texas a month before Christmas to lead her own church by her parents, Pastor Etta Richard (Regina Belle) and Dr. Clifford Richard (Darryl W. Handy) and gets a mixed reception but with the support and love of Ashton (Chaz Lamar Shepherd) she finds her confidence, her voice and love.
Young assistant pastor Olivia (Demetria McKinney) is sent to Texas a month before Christmas to lead her own church by her parents, Pastor Etta Richard (Regina Belle) and Dr. Clifford Richard (Darryl W. Handy) and gets a mixed reception but with the support and love of Ashton (Chaz Lamar Shepherd) she finds her confidence, her voice and love.
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.
