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You sang these songs as a child. So did your parents. So did theirs. You had no idea what you were singing. Behind the cheerful melodies and innocent circles of childhood lie documented histories of plague, execution, religious persecution, political betrayal, and mass death. The wool tax that left the medieval poor with nothing. The Viking attack that brought London Bridge down. The one hundred and thirty children who walked out of Hamelin on June 26, 1284 and never came back. The queen who burned nearly three hundred people alive and called it mercy.

In the holiday-obsessed equestrian town of Hurley Sparks, solitary bookstore owner Frankie is forced to co-chair the annual Christmas jubilee with Jared, a weary veteran struggling to find his footing. Their initial friction soon thaws into a tender romance, but their newfound happiness is pushed to the brink when a devastating fire destroys Frankie's shop and Jared’s youth program loses its funding. As their personal worlds crumble, they must decide if their love is a seasonal fluke or the very thing that will help them save the festival —and each other.