Reputations are hard to come by in the big city and hard to lose in small towns...

Celia Roberts, the owner of the Hummingbird Inn has it all ... almost. She has a wonderful son and a business she loves. Though challenged to make ends meet, she's come a long way from the tough times she endured as a teenage mom. With the busy Christmas season ahead, things are looking up, until Scrooge himself arrives intent on putting a huge resort next to her inn-a resort destined to put her out of business.

Wealthy business developer Rob McKenna is coming back home to the tiny town of Pinetop, Colorado to tie up loose ends. After the death of his mother, he's inherited her Victorian home, her dog, and hundreds of acres of land he plans to develop into a resort and sell. It all seems so simple until he runs into Celia Roberts. In high school, she was the "it" girl, and he was nobody. She dated the bully, and he was the target. Now he's back, and she's single and as beautiful as ever. However, she's the only thing standing between him and his plan to get in, get rich, and get out of town.

He wants to move the small town into the future. She wants to preserve the past. Can the magic of Christmas leave them both with full hearts and bright futures or will one of them end up with nothing under the tree?