At thirty-two, Kimberly Rossi, a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership, has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce and again alone with no prospects, she hardly seems the type to dream of being a published romance author. Dreading another holiday alone, she signs up for The Mistletoe Retreat, a nine-day writing retreat in Burlington, VT. Deep inside, Kimberly knows she s at a junction in her life and it s time to either fulfill her dream or let it go. The other reason she decides to attend the conference is because famed romance writer, H. T. Cowell, once the bestselling romance writer in America and the author whose books instilled in her the desire to be a writer, will be speaking in public for the first time in more than a decade."