A Cross-Country Christmas

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lauren Richmond isn't a fan of Christmas.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Which is why she rarely makes the trip home to the Midwest for the holidays. After all she has plenty to keep her busy-namely her duties as a set decorator on a TV sitcom.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But this December Lauren's brother and his wife are expecting a baby so her brother arranges a ride home for her with his good friend Will.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unfortunately for Lauren she's been trying to forget college baseball coach and childhood crush Will Sinclair for more than ten years.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now thanks to her fear of flying she's stuck in a car with him from California to Illinois.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's circumspect and organized. He's flirty and spontaneous.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's convinced that people don't change. He's trying to prove to her (and himself) that he has.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>On this cross-country road trip they'll both discover that history doesn't </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>exactly </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>repeat itself. . . but like any good Christmas carol it does have a second verse.</span></p>