He's the town scrooge.
She blew in like a candy-coated snowstorm.
Can a young boy's belief in magic bring them together?
The ink is barely dry from her divorce when Dawson Patrick and her three-year-old Autistic son, Adam, arrive in Cedar Falls, Maine. She's here to help her aging father and doesn't plan to stay long. Soon she and Adam will be on their way somewhere...to a new life.
When she finds her dad sitting in a cold house that's falling around him, with little food, she realizes she might have a bigger problem on her hands. To make matters worse, she has no idea where to start on her long list of home improvement. She needs books on lots of DIY projects, and the man to help her is the local Christmas scrooge.
Samuel Johnson owns Chapter Twenty-Five Bookstore. He doesn't enjoy the holiday season and he doesn't 'do' gifts. He just happens to live in a town that wholeheartedly embraces it, so he's learned to adapt and lay low to escape the memories of many an unhappy Christmas past. He can't believe the blonde beauty who marches into his store like a candy-coated snowstorm, along with her pint-sized elfin toddler, and orders up a stack of DIY home repair books. Before Samuel knows it, he's letting Dawson and Adam drag him to the town's tree lighting ceremony, convincing him to foster kittens, and to give gifts.
Has Dawson just returned home to forget her past, only to slide into another relationship? Has the town scrooge finally seen the Christmas lights?