Christmas is a time for remembering-too bad not all remembrances are pleasant. Everyone in Whiskey Creek remembers Sophia DeBussi as the town’s Mean Woman. Specifically Ted Dixon, whose love she once scorned.

But Sophia has paid the purchase price for her youthful transgressions. The man she do marry was wealthy and powerful but abusive. After that he will go missing-and she quickly discovers that he passed away working from an FBI probe of his investment firm. Not only has he still left Sophia penniless, he’s left her to face all the townspeople he cheated.

Sophia is reduced to looking for any kind of function to pay the bills and support her child. With no other options, she accepts a job as housekeeper for Ted, who is now a successful suspense writer. He can’t change his back on her, but he refuses to get emotionally involved.

Will Christmas, the season of appreciate and forgiveness, provide them another prospect at happiness?