'Home for the Holidays' has such a nice ring to it, unless home is a place you ran from ten years ago and never looked back. Lydia Griffin grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in a small town in Colorado, and spent many of her nights tossed into a jail cell at the local sheriff’s department to “sleep it off.†Still, when her best friend from her hometown needs her help, Lydia puts aside all of her bad memories and heads back to Falls Creek. The last person she wants to run into is the sheriff who frequently hauled her out of trouble, even if that man is one of the sexiest men she’s ever known.
Sheriff Luke Cunningham well remembers the kid that Lydia used to be. But ten years later, she’s transformed into a woman who seems to have her life together. His immediate and powerful attraction to her shocks him – after all, this was the kid he was ready to throttle throughout her high school years. Trusting her won’t come easily, particularly since Lydia seems to attract trouble. And if Luke can’t stop regarding her as a potential felon, a relationship between them may be doomed from the start.
But opposites attract, and the holidays have a way of bringing people together. With the help of a cheerful barista, a Colorado snowstorm, a plastic pig with a skirt made of Christmas lights, and a decidedly anti-Christmas playlist as a soundtrack to the season, Luke and Lydia may be able to put the past behind them. As long as the past, with all of its associated baggage, doesn’t come back to bite them in the butt.