Trading Houses. Trading Towns.

Trading Christmas!

Emily Springer, widowed mom of 1, decides to keep Leavenworth, Washington, to invest Xmas with her daughter in Boston.

Charles Brewster, history professor, curmudgeon and resident of Boston, really wants to avoid Xmas altogether. He numbers a prison town should be great and quiet within the holidays-except he’s thinking of the wrong Leavenworth!

Through an internet site, Charles and Emily arrange to swap houses for the vacation. So Emily about Trading Xmas goes to Boston-and discovers that her child has gone to Florida. And Charles happens in Leavenworth and discovers that it’s not the prison town-it’s Santa’s village! The place is certainly full of Xmas trees, Christmas music and…elves.

In the meantime, Emily’s friend Beliefs Kerrigan travels to Leavenworth to go to her and instead finds Charles, an avowed grinch. Then Charles’s brother, Ray, shows up at his house in Boston to discover that he isn’t there-but Emily is.

Through all of the mix-ups and misunderstandings, amid the chaos and confusion, romance begins to emerge in unexpected ways. Because everything changes at Christmas!

A seasonal common first published as When Xmas Comes