Dr. Suzanne Kellerman never expected to lose her heart to someone again — not after naïvely giving it away to a man who had ruthlessly shredded it before returning what was left with the divorce paperwork. Relocating to Windeport, Maine, had been the first stop in her journey to recover the woman she had once been, and falling in love with someone else hadn’t been on her roadmap. At least, not until her chance meeting with the handsome Police Chief just a few days after her arrival; the way Sean Colbeth made her feel had her torn between fleeing to another state and throwing herself wholeheartedly into the wide-open arms of the former Olympic swimmer.

Thinking that time and distance might put things into better perspective, Suzanne volunteers to cover for a colleague and decamps to Portland for the Christmas holiday; with a classic New England snowstorm bearing down on the city, she hopes the frigid temperatures will help break the strange fever Sean has given her and allow some semblance of rationality reassert itself. Her carefully thought out plan hadn’t counted on a tall, green-eyed Santa Claus appearing on her doorstep, bearing the one gift she knew would force her to decide between continuing to run away from the woman she once was — or embracing who she wanted to become…