Susan Flowers (Faith Ford) runs her own business: Hearts and Flowers – Personalized Matchmaking Services. She has found successful mates for all of her clients, but has yet to find one for herself. On New Year’s Eve, encouraged by her best friend Maureen (Kim Rhodes), Susan makes the resolution to find herself a man, someone she can kiss at midnight of the next New Year. But when Romance.com, a new Internet dating site comes onto the scene, Hearts and Flowers starts losing business. Susan is determined to prove her personalized service does a better job than a computer program ever could. Her plan is to make a profile on Romance.com, allowing the website to set her up; afterwards, she’ll write a blog exposé of how phony the site’s “scientifically-based Compatibility Formula” is, using her own experience as evidence. To Susan’s surprise, however, the site matches her with widower Josh Sherman (Cameron Daddo), and they’re a perfect pair. Little does Susan know, Josh is the owner and CEO of Romance.com. But Josh doesn’t even know he has a profile on the site – only his daughters Cassie and Jennifer the ones who made his profile, do. The girls just want a mom and for their delightful dad to be happy. Only after they have fallen for each other do Susan and Josh find out what the other does for a living, and they are both convinced the other is out to destroy their business. Ultimately, they must realize that finding the right person isn’t always a business affair; after all, love doesn’t take vacations.
Jennifer Cullen (Brooke Burns) is a single, working mom who has become somewhat of a Scrooge when it comes to the Holiday season. Even her six-year-old son Brian is having trouble believing in Santa Claus. When Jen’s Uncle Ralph (Henry Winkler), a retired police officer, comes to visit for Christmas, he brings along a new friend, a nomad and Jack-of-all-trades named Morgan Derby (Warren Christie). The two met on a flight, and Morgan’s plans to continue on to Denver are cancelled when he finds out the city is completely snowed in. Jen is wary of the stranger, but at Ralph’s request, agrees to let him stay the night. She warms up to Morgan, especially when she sees how he interacts with Brian. Uncle Ralph approves of Morgan, too, but Jen’s boyfriend Richard isn’t nearly as receptive. Meanwhile, Morgan has started to really like Jen, but if she can’t manage to make Christmas about anything more than business, Morgan will be on his way to Denver, and she’ll have missed the opportunity that was right in front of her. Uncle Ralph has done what he can to keep Morgan around, but it’s going to take something more than that to get him penciled into Jen’s long-term plans. Jen just needs to learn “how to do Christmas,” and it turns out Morgan is the perfect one to teach her.
