Beth Long is navigating the week before her best friend’s
Christmas wedding with a strained smile and an unexpected
houseguest. Instead of dreading the arrival of her ex-
husband and his gold medal-winning fiancée, she’s defending
Christmas Town’s over-the-top everything to disapproving
Steven Dorsey. She should be busy planning the bridal
party’s hair and makeup or collecting loose change from
every couch in town to cover the final loan payment on her
shop. Smoothing ruffled feathers, advising a clueless man,
and reluctantly falling for him are distractions she
doesn’t want.
Steven Dorsey has never been more aware of his social
deficiencies than when he stumbles into Beth Long’s beauty
salon. She’s too warm. Witty. Vibrant. Their elderly
audience is too nosy. Accepting the Christmas Eve wedding
invitation issued by an old friend, the groom-to-be, means
spending the holiday inside a snow globe’s village. The
carousel restoration project provides additional,
interesting incentive. Staying with Beth for the week is
his only option, but when his sister is added to the mix,
he understands that Beth and Christmas Town, odd as it is,
might be home.