Lauren Maxwell doesn t think anything could bring her back to her hometown of Magnolia, but a message from her beloved baby brother, Brody, announcing that he s getting married on Christmas Eve to his pregnant girlfriend, Avah, who he s only known a couple of months, has Lauren making the long drive from Atlanta with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Hannah,.  They are at odds after Hannah, who seems determined to follow in her mom s rebellious footsteps, wrecked the car at a flagpole in her high school and was charged with a DUI.  Luckily, no one was hurt, but Lauren realizes a big change is necessary to get the girl on the right track.  If only she believed she had the capacity to do it. Lauren had had a difficult time of it in adolescence, especially with her favored stepsister, Kayla, who seemed to be everything Lauren wasn t--quiet, studious, making no trouble--and her father, who got custody of all three kids when her mother died, was not an easy man.  But&n