Intrigue

A New York City book editor is chosen to run a bookstore for the month of December, rediscovering her creative spark while butting heads with the son of the bookstore owners and learns that talent (and love) can be found anywhere.

A successful New York City book editor (Gonzalo), who is losing touch with her passion after a few setbacks this year learns she was chosen to run a bookstore in the small town of Saint Ives for the month of December. While realizing a childhood dream, but butting heads with the handsome son (Penny) of the bookstore owners, she comes to realize that her love for bringing out the creativity of others is still her true calling, and untapped talent (and love) can be found anywhere... even in the writings of a cranky business-minded man, especially at Christmas.

Harper Stevens is arguably the most valued book editor at New York City based Stillman Publishing, but in feeling burnt out and unfocused for various reasons has been granted a one month leave of absence to see if she can find that spark she feels is now missing in her work. Believing it to be karma, she at the last minute learns that she has been chosen after having applied years ago to be the temporary clerk for the month of December at The Book Cabinet bookstore in St. Ives, ME, the position, the dream of many a bookworm like herself, especially in her case as she and her childhood best friend Kimberley had seriously contemplated opening their own bookstore, which comes complete with an apartment above the bookstore. She doesn't intend on telling anyone in St. Ives what she does for a living. The position doesn't quite start the way she would have wanted in having major differences in opinion with the owner/manager Sawyer Lambert, who moved back to St. Ives unexpectedly to turn around what were the failing fortunes of this, the family business, he accomplishing such by largely turning away from the books, which he nonetheless loves, to open a high end wine bar in the store. The ice between the two slowly melts as they get to learn more about the other. What happens between them is affected by their own self-actualization goals, Harper's to find that spark again which has to involve coming to terms with the major reason she has felt lost this past year, and Sawyer who, with his absent parents, has to decide what to do about a lucrative offer to buy the store, a sale which could open up his time and financial ability possibly to return to a pursuit he had long put on the back-burner as unattainable in another side of books.—Huggo