Days before Christmas, Las Vegas night-window server Tessa Bellamy loses everything at once: her fiance Dax cancels the license appointment, drains her wedding savings and is now engaged to her own cousin. Her grandmother Bea is running out of time, still asking when the groom is coming home, so Tessa takes the only offer on the table: Bram, the bearded man sleeping in the yard where she works, says he will be her groom. She insists the marriage be real, and it is: a license, a flight home, a mother who wants answers, and a family lunch where her relatives price him by his coat. What nobody can price is a six-figure car paid in full, a club that changes hands overnight, and a stalker with a gun. Bram keeps promising to tell her the rest himself, and takes a metal bar to the head before she can reach it. Then he bids ten million dollars at the Christmas auction, and the name on the payment is Bram Kessler, CEO of Northwake Hospitality. She takes off her ring.
