Plot

Harrington is the author of a book series but commercial success has left him a bitter recluse. As he returns to his hometown for an annual Christmas festival, he's joined by April, a publicist for the publishing house he works with.

Harrington is the author of a popular book series, but commercial success has left him a bitter recluse. As he returns to his hometown for an annual Christmas festival celebrating his books, he's joined by April, a publicist for the major publishing house he works with. April is there for damage control after Harrington's recent comments on social media have ruffled some feathers. But as she gets to know him better, hope springs that April can unlock Harrington's guarded heart and help him rediscover the spirit of the holiday.

Author Harrington Davis has made a name for himself with the beloved Magic in Mistletoe series of Christmas books, which are based on his own real life Christmases in his hometown of Mistletoe, with some fantasy elements, most notably the inspiration for the books' character of the mystical Christmas Fairy. With the final installment of the series imminently released this Christmas season, Silver Spark, the publishing house, has to do some last minute damage control due to a single social media post by Harrington denouncing Christmas in Mistletoe as a scam. The company's head of PR, April Collins, takes the lead on this file, her plan having Harrington going back to Mistletoe for the Christmas in Mistletoe Festival to partake in a series of the festival's events. Never having met Harrington personally, April finds not only that he is a little "prickly" to use a term by his friends to describe him, but that the whole attendance at the festival will be a negotiation in Harrington not wanting to do it, he not having been back to his hometown since the passing of his mother, his father having passed a few years earlier. April will have to figure out the right buttons to push to get Harrington to agree to anything. But April has to learn what truly led to his social media post not only to save his career and the final book, but to get him to love Christmas and Christmas in Mistletoe like he once did as that inspiration for the books.—Huggo