Fairbrook is a town tailor-made for Christmas, with beautiful old houses on quaintly named streets like Sugar Plum Lane and Nutcracker Court. But not everyone is eager for the holidays. Carly Westbrook worries about providing a merry Christmas for her boys. Then there's Grant Barrows, a formerly wealthy businessman whose heart seems to have shrunk along with his bank balance. Wealthy widow Lynette thinks that a little matchmaking between Grant and Carly may spruce things up.