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With Christmas only three days away, Carol Claus agrees to her father's request that she leave the North Pole on a mission to help save Christmas. Joining single father Ben Hanson and his children for the holidays seems an easy enough task until Santa informs her that Ben is the man behind the disturbing new book Beyond Bah Humbug: Why Lying to Your Children about Santa Claus Is a Bad Idea. Posing as Miss Kane, the children's new nanny, Carol pulls out all the stops to show Ben how fun Christmas can be, all the while struggling to understand how one man could hate the holidays so much.

After years away from the North Pole, Kris Kringle happily accepts her Uncle Santa's offer to move back to Christmas Central as head chef. With her young daughter in tow, Kris returns home with two objectives in mind. Goal number one, bring her love of healthy eating and nutritious fare to the North Pole dining service. Goal number two, recover from heartbreak and forget Kyle Masterson, the man who broke her heart.

With the countdown to Christmas underway, interior designer Jackie Frost is surprised to receive an urgent phone call from Santa Claus requesting her help. Once at the North Pole, Jackie gets swept up into Santa's crazy plan to makeover Christmas Central as a surprise for Mrs. Claus. Several things test Jackie's devotion to the Claus family as the renovations get underway, not the least of which is having to work alongside master craftsman Dean Bradshaw.

Everywhere she looks, from the piles of presents to the thousands of cheery elves hard at work, Holly sees ways to improve the whole operation. Even Nick Claus, Santa's charming son, fails to draw Holly into the holiday spirit. It's only when Holly cancels Nick's pet project, and jeopardizes Christmas for thousands of children, that she realizes that the man she discounts as a total slacker might be the only one who can teach her about the joy of Christmas.

Adamantly opposed to commercial whaling, Miranda happily trades her fin for human legs when she's given the opportunity to work as a maid for a man in charge of public relations for a large Japanese whaling firm. Miranda soon finds out that she loves pedicures, favors bikinis over clamshells, and that she's a natural disaster when it comes to human housework.

One kilt, two people meant to be together, and a dozen complications equal a Christmas fiasco in the making. No matter how Santa Claus tries to crunch the numbers, he can’t make them add up to equal a love match between museum curators Jack Lantz and Kirsten Nichols. The two lonely hearts are perfect for each other but they’re also too caught up in a race to acquire an antique kilt to notice their chemistry. Santa, however, is convinced that the two make an ideal couple.

When Ava McKenna left the neighborhood she grew up in, she never planned to look back. And for 10 years she didn’t. Not until Mateo Ortega, the handsome and charming boy next door, showed up to ask for her help. Mateo needed a favor - actually, he needed a pretend fiancée, and he thought Ava would be the perfect woman for the charade. Ava knew that she owed the Ortega family a favor, but when she looked into Mateo’s gorgeous brown eyes, she realized that repaying an old debt might jeopardize her heart.

North Pole engineer Garrett McCree values his peace and quiet above all else, and his life runs according to a carefully crafted master plan. Until, that is, Santa Claus asks Garrett to play chaperone to the winner of the North Pole Prize essay contest. Out of loyalty to Santa, Garrett reluctantly agrees. After all, how much trouble can one woman possibly be?

Wedding planner Eve Bennington has her Christmas all thought out, down to the last Mai Tai she plans to savor once she reaches Hawaii. But her plans quickly go awry when her very pregnant business partner insists that Eve do a favor for Santa's niece. The problem? Santa isn't real. Or so Eve believes until she and her ex-boyfriend Hunter find themselves on a sleigh pulled by eight shaggy reindeer.

As German bombs rain down upon the city of London, Emma Bradley hastily packs a suitcase, cradles her newborn son in her arms, and boards a train with two evacuee children she’s agreed to chaperone in exchange for a job in the south of England. Although she’s only one of thousands leaving the city, Emma is fleeing more than the horrors of war. Her greatest fear is that the father of her child will track her down and exact revenge for what she’s stolen from him.

El ingeniero del Polo Norte, Garrett McCree, valora la paz y la tranquilidad por sobre todas las cosas. Su vida transcurre según un plan maestro, cuidadosamente confeccionado, hasta que Santa Claus le pide a Garrett que haga de chaperón de la ganadora del concurso de ensayos Premio Polo Norte.

Londres, 1940. Mientras las bombas alemanas llueven sobre la ciudad de Londres, Emma Bradley empaca de prisa, toma a su bebé recién nacido en brazos, y toma un tren junto con dos niños evacuados, a los que aceptó cuidar a cambio de un empleo en el sur de Inglaterra. Aunque es uno de los miles que abandonan la ciudad, Emma huye de algo más que de los horrores de la guerra. Su mayor miedo es que el padre del niño los rastree y se vengue por lo que ella le robó. El concertista de piano holandés, mundialmente reconocido, Andrej Van der Hoosen, es un hombre que valora su privacidad por ...

Después de años de haber dejado el Polo Norte, Kris Kringle acepta con gusto la oferta de su tío, Santa Claus, para regresar a la Sede Central de la Navidad como chef principal. Acompañada por su pequeña hija, Kris vuelve a casa con dos objetivos en mente: número uno, llevar su amor por la alimentación saludable y la comida nutritiva al servicio gastronómico del Polo Norte; número dos, recuperarse de un desamor y olvidar a Kyle Masterson, el hombre que le rompió el corazón.

La cuenta regresiva para la Navidad ya ha comenzado, y la decoradora de interiores Jackie Frost se sorprende al recibir un llamado urgente de Santa Claus para pedir su ayuda. Una vez en el Polo Norte, Jackie se ve involucrada en el alocado plan de Santa para redecorar toda la Sede Central de la Navidad como una sorpresa para la señora Claus.

Cuando Ava McKenna dejó el vecindario donde había crecido, nunca planeó mirar atrás. Y durante diez años no lo hizo. No hasta que Mateo Ortega, el atractivo y encantador muchacho de la casa de al lado, apareció para pedirle ayuda. Mateo necesitaba un favor; en realidad, necesitaba una falsa prometida, y pensó que Ava sería la mujer perfecta para la farsa. Ava sabía que le debía un favor a la familia Ortega pero, cuando miró a los espléndidos ojos marrones de Mateo, se dio cuenta de que saldar la antigua deuda podría poner en peligro su corazón.

Fiona Cantrell is a woman on a mission. More aptly put, she's a fairy godmother on a mission. Her dream of moving to London is about to come true now that all that stands between her and her new job is a few unpacked suitcases. Or so she thinks until her old boss shows up with one more little task for her to complete before she leaves for Europe. Her new assignment involves a handsome cowboy named Cody, his two rascally nephews, and a mountain of laundry...all of which would be no problem for any self-respecting fairy godmother.

On the spur of the moment, single mother Jenni Marshall packs up her car and teenage son, and trades the cold winter of Maine for a warm weather Christmas on Pine Island. Her hope is that spending the holidays in Florida will help cheer up her only child who has once again been disappointed by his almost-always absentee father. It's smooth sailing until they reach the island and get a flat, with no spare tire, no cell phone reception, and no help in sight. Micah Braxton is a wealthy man who would gladly trade his millions for happiness.

Having worked in a Las Vegas wedding chapel for many years, Bella Johnson thought she’d seen it all when it came to spur of the moment weddings. Until the morning she wakes up in bed with a handsome and charming Brit she’d met only the day before who claims they’re now married. Neither Bella nor Colin have any recollection of saying "I do", although their respective grandparents assure them they’ve done just that.

Als Miss Kane, das neue Kindermädchen, setzt Carol alle Hebel in Bewegung, um Ben zu zeigen, wie toll Weihnachten sein kann, auch wenn sie die ganze Zeit Schwierigkeiten hat zu verstehen, wie ein Mann die Feiertage so sehr hassen kann. Wie konnte sie, die Tochter des Weihnachtsmanns, sich zu einem Mann, der sich weigerte daran zu glauben, dass ihr Vater existierte, so hingezogen fühlen?

Divorce attorney Kayla Brooks knows more about broken marriages than is healthy for any woman’s heart. So, when her college-aged niece joyfully announces her engagement, Kayla is determined to derail the wedding plans. To her mind, saving Whitney from an early marriage is saving her from inevitable heartbreak.