TJ Trader was only six years old when he watched his mother and sister die on Christmas Eve. Even four years later, that night casts a dark cloud over the holiday. It also deepened the wedge between him and his father.

Proprietor of their small town's most famous seasonal goods store, Micah Trader has made Christmas magical for families far and wide - except for his own son. Hampered by a crippling secret, he's watched himself grow further away from his son with every passing year. But the arrival of the store's newest employee may be the beginning of the wayward pair's journey toward reconciliation.

With an uncanny resemblance to St. Nick, Edward Gabriel comes with both an angelic charm and a lifetime's worth of wisdom won through years of his own regret and pain. But even he may find the secrets between this father and son too wide a chasm to bridge. When Micah's secrets begin to unravel as another Christmas season approaches, it will force both Micah and TJ to choose whether their family can still be saved, or if this will be the Christmas the destruction of their family is finally completed.