Last Christmas
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"This was it. Our last Christmas as a family. There was something so bittersweet about the thought that it brought tears to my eyes."
When Noelle Hart is called back to her hometown for one last Christmas with her family before her father's health declines further, she hops on the first plane out and back home.
Being back home and having to tell her family of the nasty breakup she'd had with her ex-who they all adored-is just the beginning of her string of bad luck.
After arriving, her brother tells her there's no room back at the house for her to stay for the next month-and she'll have to take his room at his loft a few blocks away.
The very loft he shares with his very scroogey best friend Elijah Connor, that's teased Noelle since they were kids.
With one last Christmas to bask in her father's presence and memories of the past, Noelle is nothing like the little girl who'd spent every year prior dancing around to old Christmas songs and decorating the tree and house with her little cousins.
And Elijah has vowed to stop at nothing to bring his little elf back.
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