Plot Synopsis

Worldly travel writer Emory Blake breaks up with her boyfriend a couple weeks before Christmas. She tells her editor she is planning to spend Christmas alone in a cabin in Pine Bluff, and her editor convinces her to write a story while she is there. She soon meets handsome widower Scott Hays and his adorable daughter Katy when they all land up in the same cabin, an obvious mix-up. Once they learn there are no more cabins available and a snowstorm is setting in, they agree to share the large cabin, at least until Emory can leave the next day. She realizes that Scott and Katy could be the subjects of a story she needs to write about an American Christmas. She joins them for one activity, then another and another, and even agrees to assist in the building of a gingerbread house with them for the annual Pine Bluff contest. A completely unexpected romance blossoms between them but complications and missed communications ensues, causing them to pull apart. Ultimately they each confess to the other the feelings they have been hiding, and realize they are the best gift each has ever received.