Newly single at Christmas, Veronica Cearley finds unexpected comfort in The X-Mas Club — a festive group of food lovers who cook, give back, and celebrate the season solo. But when sparks fly with the club’s warm-hearted founder, Cullen Murdock, she realizes that the best part of Christmas might not be the food or the traditions—but the people who feel like home.

A 1970s Southern housewife trapped in a loveless marriage becomes involved with a mobster, forcing her to choose between safe domesticity and a dangerous life of passion.