It's the approach to Christmas in New York City.

With Christmas just weeks away, the architecture firm Taylor works for enters her in a contest in which the teams will design and build life-sized gingerbread houses.

Raised by her mother, but orphaned at a young age at Christmas, Miranda finds a clue that will take her to the truth about her father.

Avery, a blogger with a string of disappointing Valentine's Days, is ready to give up on love when she meets handsome veterinarian Brendan.

Faith Mason is the art teacher at Ponchatoula Junior High, it a job she loves in giving her students an outlet to express themselves at a stage of their lives when doing so verbally or in writing is often difficult.

Jenna Hudson (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Kevin Jenner (Andrew Walker) are polar opposites working for the same online publication in New York City.

The Christmas Train is a fiction novel written by David Baldacci. The book was initially published on October 17, 2003 by Grand Central Publishing.

Multiple coincidences and a chance meeting bring Alice and Jack, two strangers from very different family backgrounds, together for a weekend wedding celebration.

Frankie Baldwin and Nate DeLuca have been able to bridge the Baldwin/DeLuca family feud - the families the major players in the grape growing/wine making business in St.

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A photographer returns home to take care of her grandmother and gets involved with helping a neighbor look after his young nephew.

When terminally ill Suzy Mayor (Parker) leaves the hospital to spend her last days at her home in Conway, South Carolina, her grouch of a husband, Duncan (Garcia) is beside himself with concern for her and with annoyance at everyone else, including Natalie (Moore), the live-in hospice nurse who has come home with Suzy.

Katherine endures the worst Valentine's Day date of her life. On her way home a gypsy casts a magical spell on her.

"When struggling pastry chef Kylie Watson learns she's made it to the finals of the American Gingerbread Competition, she thinks her competitive spirit has finally paid off and hopes the publicity will help her jumpstart her new café.

The only thing that is working in Cassie's world is her small town business. Her Christmas Cupcakery is a huge success, but her love life is a mess.

Miranda is flying back to Vermont from her home in Seattle to reconnect with her family over the holidays -- and to see Ian, a local handyman she fell in love with on her last trip to the Green Mountain State.

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With her California hometown in the rear-view mirror, Belle heads north on business to facilitate the estate sale of a mansion.

Emily White runs the farm with her mother Susan and one paid employee, Gloria.

After adopting a cute puppy, Noelle's world is turned upside down when her boyfriend breaks up with her.