Homegrown Christmas

Maddie Finley has just sold Madd Shoes, the now highly-successful New York-based company she built from the ground, with no idea what to do next, so she accepts her mother Pat's invitation to return home to small-town Claremont for more than the day-in/day-out Christmas visit she's made for the 17 years she's lived in New York--not just because of her focus on work, but also to avoid her former sweetheart, Carter Allen, now the foreman of Pat's small woodworking company; she treats him like family. Maddie and Carter were very near getting engaged when Maddie left for New York, and Carter wanted to stay in Claremont. Maddie knows that there is no way to avoid Carter on this trip and decides to be mature about it despite their unresolved issues. With everyone else in the Finley and Allen families running around this Christmas season above and beyond work issues, Maddie volunteers to help and is asked to organize the high school's Christmas formal in the Finleys' barn--the company workshop--because of issues at the school. Maddie and Carter butt heads in this project but are forced to deal with their personal issues, and realize that they still have feelings for each other. But time might not have changed the issue that originally broke them up, which deep down might not even be Maddie's desire for a high-powered big-city life and Carter's preference to stay in the protective bubble of Claremont--but in each presuming what the other wanted without actually discussing it together.