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Shay Martin has been collecting houses and buildings for her Christmas Villages since she was a child, but this year, she has a specific looking cottage in mind. While searching for just the right addition for her collection, she finds a picture of the perfect Evergreen Cottage. However, on further research, she finds the photo is of a real cottage. Shay had already decided to travel for the holidays to get away from sad memories and just be alone. After meeting the trail ride instructor, she's no longer sure she wants to be completely alone for the season.

When Shera Logan stepped off the train to stretch her legs, she never expected to twist her ankle and be abandoned at a coal stop, 60 miles from the next town. After walking for hours, she realizes that she can go no further, so she lays down in the snow, makes a snow angel and her most special prayer asking God to either send someone to help her or to take her home. Mathew Tucker, intent on returning to his ranch after a visit to town, never expected to find a woman collapsed in the snow almost frozen to death. Will Shera's prayers be answered by this cowboy who tries to save her?

When Mammie announces that Stephen needs to go to town and pick up his mail order bride, he is flabbergasted. Mammie has been writing to Sally Jersey and now expects him to marry her. Stephen has every intention of putting her back on the stage and sending her home, until he sees her lovely face and the nieces and nephews she brought. Will Stephen allow himself to fall in love, or will Sally be given away to the most eligible bachelor in Waterhole, Texas?

Twelve year old Carissa wants to ride horses. When the neighbor gets an abused palomino, Carissa offers to help take care of it. But will her wish come true?

Franklin thought his estate and businesses belonged to him, until an unknown grandmother shows up with proof that she owns the billionaire's fortune. She plans to give him all rights to his empire if he can do just one thing: work for two weeks before Christmas at Sprucewood, Colorado's Camp for Special Needs Kids, and perhaps learn that work and making money are only of value in God's eyes if mixed with a bit of charity. When he's paired off with Sprucewood's own mayor's daughter Audrey, who has recently discovered "Jesus", the two of them begin to have their eyes opened.

When Jody Carson is given the chance to photograph a small town's Christmas event for the magazine she works for, she isn't sure how she feels when her boss agrees her hometown "Christmas Cookie Town" would be the perfect choice, because she knows she will have to work closely with the town's mayor, her ex-fiancé Holcom Garrison. Can working together and sharing Christmas cookies reignite their interest in one another?

When Sylvia May, owner of the Good Old Days Antique store in Harbor Inn, Maine, attends an estate sale, she finds a diary hidden in a lovely old desk. Before she knows what's happening, her store and her garage have been broken in to, and one person is dead. Can Sylvia figure out who the killer is, and are there clues in the diary?

When Rachel attends the annual "Dickens on Main" Christmas event in Boerne, Texas, she never imagined she would end up spending the weekend with a handsome Houston Newspaper man who wants to write an article about the event as seen through her eyes. As their relationship grows, Rachel wonders if Charlie Dickens could be the man that God has prepared for her, until she discovers he is a possible thief. Will Rachel be able to solve the mystery before the weekend is over, and Charlie leaves with the stolen Dickens collectible and her heart?

Tricia has been living in the town of Harbor Inn, Maine for less than a year, ever since she discovered her boyfriend was seeing another woman, but she has given up on dating anyone. That is, until Gathe Denver moves back to town and says that he wants to court her. Is courting any different than dating? Can she trust this man with her heart? As Tricia and Gathe participate in all 12 Christmas Cocoa traditions and events around town, will she be able to trust Gathe and find true and lasting love?

When Dale returns to Bandera, Texas, for Christmas, all he expects is to spend time with his beloved dog Buck. However, running into Shanna, his high-school sweetheart, reminds him of the time he has wasted and all he lost by running away on Christmas Eve nine years earlier. When he discovers something awful happened to Shanna on the night that he left, Dale is determined to make it up to her, but first he must be able to forgive the way that God has forgiven him.

When Penny Trent, owner of Cake Time in Harbor Inn, Maine, meets Kyle London, a famous writer who has come to to close down his grandmother's coffee shop, Just a Cup, there is an immediate attraction between them. Penny, busy cooking for the mayor’s Christmas party, the town’s annual bake-off, and trying to persuade Kyle to keep Just a Cup open, doesn’t have time for holiday traditions or to embark on a new relationship, even if it is with the man of her dreams.

When Bonnie Wurthington's step brother gambles her away to Lord Blackstorm and she is sent to his estate to work the fields, Bonnie is confused and worried. But she believes that this is part of God's plan for her life, so she agrees to go. When Lord Rutherford discovers that the Bonnie he won in a late night card game is a lovely and Godly woman and not the "mule" he thought he had won, he realizes that to salvage her reputation he must marry her, but he knows that he isn't the man of God that Bonnie needs.

When Penny Trent, owner of Cake Time in Harbor Inn Maine, meets Kyle London, a famous writer who has come to close down his grandmother's coffee shop, Just a Cup, there is an immediate attraction between them. Penny, busy cooking for the mayor's Christmas party, the town's annual bake off, and trying to persuade Kyle to keep Just a Cup open, doesn't have time for holiday traditions or to embark on a new relationship, even if it is with the man of her dreams.

Holly thought she was going to Waterhole, Texas to marry William Pitt; a young rancher she’d been corresponding with. However, the old, rude and arrogant man who picks her up at the stagecoach station in San Antonio to take her to meet her fiancé, reveals along the way that he is actually who she has been writing to. Now that she’s agreed to the marriage there is nothing, she can do but go through with the ceremony.

This is a story about Shelby, a girl who grows into womanhood and learns that the church across the river has much more to offer than just the beautiful sound of the ringing bells that her Mamma had loved. As she grows and develops her relationship with Jesus Christ, she is also torn between two young men and the chance to become a teacher. With God's help, she is able to make the decision to follow God's plan for her life.

When Shera Logan stepped off the train to stretch her legs, she never expected to twist her ankle and be abandoned at a coal stop, 60 miles from the next town. After walking for hours, she realizes that she can go no further, so she lays down in the snow, makes a snow angel, and her most special prayer asking God to either send someone to help her or to take her home. Mathew Tucker, intent on returning to his ranch after a visit to town, never expected to find a woman collapsed in the snow almost frozen to death.

Deanna and Ryan are working together to care for an ill child, but they come from two different worlds. Will a Christmas masquerade be able to bring them together?

When Desiree decides to move back home to Fredericksburg, Texas and open an art studio, she finds herself strangely satisfied helping save the lovely Blue Bonnet Inn from closing. She also finds she is attracted to the handsome new owner who is also a baker and part-time Elvis impersonator. When Holt is left his Gran's Blue Bonnet Inn bed and breakfast, he fears he must close it down, until he meets Desiree, who offers to help save the failing business. Working together, Holt finds himself attracted to Desiree.

When Texas Hill Country Ranch owner Dustin stops at a farmhouse to get his horse shod, the last thing he expects to find is a young woman chained in the kitchen, forced to cook for her uncle. And when he offers to hire her as a cook, and take her home with him, Dustin doesn't realize that the young woman will not fill his stomach but will soon fill his heart as well. But will Charlie be able to escape her past?

When four sisters show up in town to fill the position of sheriff, Mark isn't sure what to do. This town is no place for women, especially a green-eyed beauty like Sam. When the town learns that these four woman can outshoot any man around Mark is forced to accept the girls as sheriff, but when one of them is kidnapped and being forced into marriage, will the other girls be able to save her and prove once and for all that they can do the job?