When a down-on-his-luck businessman gambles away the mob's money, he is forced to go on the run and hide out as a shopping mall Santa Claus.

Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hearts?

A writer goes back to the family ranch to write an article about her passion for horses and discovers what ended her marriage and why she stopped riding horses.