East Kansas is the picture postcard of Christmas. Mountain peaks, wreath-covered storefronts and holiday music streaming into the streets. During the holiday season, ice skating on Miller Pond is the main social outlet for the town. To Olivia Miller, her hometown is the perfect place to live. But the town is dying, and there's only one way to save it. Thomas Baker plans to spend another Christmas alone until he is offered a chance to supervise the construction of a new road. His excitement fades when he finds out the job is in East Kansas, the one place he swore never to return to. Besides avoiding one man who lives there, Thomas must protect his heart against the young girl who stole it fifteen years ago. According Thomas Baker, a new road through the mountains--and Olivia's pond--is the only way to ease the town's economic struggle. As much as she wants to hate the man hired to build the road and destroy her family's legacy, she also finds herself inexplicably drawn to him. Just as Olivia and Thomas begin to kindle a relationship, history between their two family's surfaces. The past threatens to kill both their futures as well as the road. Will this be the last Christmas for East Kansas?
