Fic­tion

The Eight Heart­breaks of Hanukkah

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September 1, 2024

Can these exes rekin­dle their love this Hanukkah? Eve­lyn Schwartz has the per­fect Hanukkah planned: eight jam-packed days pro­duc­ing the live-action tele­vised musi­cal of A Christ­mas Car­ol. Who needs fam­i­ly when you’ve got long hours, impos­si­ble dead­lines, and your dream job? That is, until an acci­dent on set lands her in the med­ical bay with one of her chron­ic migraines, and she’s shocked to find her ex-hus­band, David Adler, fill­ing in for the usu­al stu­dio doc­tor. It’s been two years since David walked away from Eve­lyn and their life in Man­hat­tan, and his ex-wife is still the same worka­holic who puts her career before every­thing else — espe­cial­ly her health. But when Eve­lyn begins hal­lu­ci­nat­ing ghosts” tied to her past heart­breaks, and every sin­gle one leads to David, he finds him­self spend­ing much more time with her than he antic­i­pat­ed. And deny­ing the still-smol­der­ing chem­istry between them becomes impos­si­ble. As Eve­lyn revis­its her ghosts of Hanukkah past, she and David both begin to won­der if they can have a Hanukkah future. But with a high-stakes pro­duc­tion ramp­ing up the pres­sure on Eve­lyn, and trou­ble­some spir­its forc­ing them both to con­front their most dif­fi­cult shared mem­o­ries, it might just take a Hanukkah mir­a­cle for these two exes to light the flame on their sec­ond-chance at love.

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