House on the brink of foreclosure, car always running on fumes and her husband in the unemployment line-again and with Christmas right around the corner; Maureen Upshaw knows there's no possible way her family will enjoy a good Christmas this year. Faced with one disaster after another, she's not sure how much longer she can hang on by her nubby finger tips. But when a solution to all their financial problems prances by, will her deception lead to happily ever after or will she doom her family to a lifetime of poverty and lose her husband's love forever?