"Vanessa Larkin just agreed to an out-of-town job assignment over the holidays. Only when she gets there she realizes her bosses haven't been upfront with the town about the plans to shut down the plant. Mike Marshall, a widower raising a teenaged daughter, is a big believer in tradition and doing things the old-fashioned way. As much as she despises having to do it, Vanessa has to announce the shut-down plans and get things moving--and it's not going to make her popular with the town, or with Mike who she's completely taken by"--