A Glenbrooke Christmas

Wealthy Jessica Morgan will assume the CEO position of the Los Angeles-based Morgan Organization in the new year upon the retirement of her paternal grandfather Harold Morgan; she will follow his legacy and that of her father (her parents died in a car accident 30 years before). Jessica has never had the opportunity to take a breather from work, but now she decides to honor her parents by spending the lead-up to Christmas in small-town Glenbrooke, Colorado, her mother's hometown, where her parents met and fell in love; she would stay in her mother's former house, a currently-available rental. Jessica especially wants to experience listening to the church bells ring on Christmas Eve, a town tradition for close to a century in the legend of wishes upon it coming true, such as her mother's of marrying her father, he having proposed to her immediately thereafter. She plans to spend her time there under the assumed name of Jessica Emerson (Emerson is her middle name) to not attract attention; people, particularly men, tend to see her for the high-powered executive who can do things for them, rather than for *who* she is. As she falls in love with the town, she understands why her parents loved it; she also quickly falls in love with the town's fire chief, Kyle Buchanan, despite their initial antagonistic encounters. And when she discovers that the bells may not ring this Christmas Eve because of costly repairs the church and town can't afford, she wants to help get it fixed in time for Christmas Eve without going the route of writing a check. Beyond the job in Los Angeles, Jessica quickly comes to what she sees a no-win situation with Kyle--he harbors disdain for the attitudes and behavior of the rich and believes that money changes people, and he might not forgive her for not telling him the truth about herself from the beginning; he values honesty above all else because lies led to the end of his last serious relationship.