Publisher's Synopsis
Noelle Brewer's winter break during her senior year of high school isn't exactly starting how she planned. First, there's the super awkward (but kind of romantic?) moment with her best friend, Everett Fischer.
Then, there's the earth-shattering news from her mother and sister that they're spending Christmas in London with Noelle's grandmother, approximately 3,500 miles away from their beloved family home, the town and people that made up every single Christmas Noelle can remember, and all the memories of her jolly and fun-loving father, who passed away the year before.
To distract herself from her impending departure across the pond and her unresolved grief surrounding her father's death, Noelle and Everett create a bucket list of Christmas-themed tasks to complete by Christmas Eve. However, as they cross off more items, including attending one of her mother's crazy work Christmas parties, Noelle realizes her feelings for Everett are getting harder to deny. Her grief also becomes harder to suppress after a family secret is revealed, adding even more turmoil to what has already been the most challenging year of her life.
With so much change on the horizon, Noelle must work through her true feelings and accept that even though Christmas is the time to do a lot of things, some things can't simply be crossed off a list, and instead need to be truly lived.
