Rita Jensen has had enough of what she perceives as the games involved in finding true love, witness her last two poorly chosen boyfriends. So when her job as a reporter for a suburban newspaper requires her to attend a holiday party on a cold December night, she doesn't want to go for two reasons. First, she might have to deal with men on the prowl, and second, she hates mistletoe and its idiotic kissing tradition. However, as the evening progresses, her casual friendship with a photographer colleague heats up when he catches her unaware under the mistletoe. And she meets a stranger, an attorney from London, who has his own element of intrigue. In the year that follows, she is seduced by one and pursued by the other and must choose with her heart and with her head between the possibilities that a kiss can create.