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It's Christmastime. Chancy Hamilton can’t bear the thought of spending the holidays without her late husband, Max, who died in a plane crash. When Chancy and her teenage son, Travis, have an argument, Travis storms out of the house and ends up in the wrong part of town, where he is attacked by a group of thugs. When a homeless man comes to his rescue, he invites the man home to have a meal with his mom and little sister.

Interior designer Chloe Kensley tries to put her life back together after her fiancé, Dan, is killed. But that's not easy, considering she's seeing his ghost. Is she imagining things, or is Dan reaching out to her? Needing a fresh start, Chloe takes a glamorous new design job in Salt Lake City, where she gets caught up in a love triangle with two very different brothers - Garrett, the charming, playful younger brother and Hank, her straight-laced boss. But there's more to the brothers than meets the eye.

In the South, we believe in being polite, even if it kills us. So, when we just can't fight the urge to say something nasty, we follow it up with a "bless her heart" just to make us feel better. "Look at that poor woman trying to jog around that track. Her rear-end is dragging a trail, bless her heart." Youngblood and Poole talk about the ins and outs of nosy neighbors, sibling rivalry, and why every Southerner worth her salt feels the need to offer advice.

Blakely Donelson, a professor of psychology, never expected to get dumped by her colleague…and she certainly didn’t anticipate crossing paths with a hunky mixed martial arts fighter. Blakely finds herself in the uncomfortable spot of being the last of her friends who have yet to find a significant other. While she tells herself that she’s perfectly happy being single, her heart has other ideas.