Angie Moore's widowed mother Margeret is tired of footing her extravagant New York socialite bills and tells the unemployed graduate to pay her debts by Christmas, less then a month. As a trust fund from her late father contains over two million in case of marriage, she vows to get 'a ring' before Christmas. Her buddy helps prepare the plan to hook up her birth town first love, popular jock and now high school coach Tyler Davis, and accidentally betrays the game, but the eternal bachelor decides a marriage of convenience is just what he needs to finance his projects. At arrival she bumps into Tyler's life-long buddy Gabe Hudson, a gifted chef who returned to save his father's diner form ruin, and always has a crush on Angie, who grows to love him back truly as well as the town she couldn't wait to leave while helping him out, discovering her talent as business consultant and together setting up a charity Christmas dinner.