"Engaging Father Christmas"

"Engaging Father Christmas" is the second movie in the Father Christmas trilogy which is part of Hallmark's Miracles of Christmas series. 

In "Finding Father Christmas" Miranda travels from Seattle to Carlton Heath on the east coast to learn the identity of her birth father.  When her mother died suddenly when she was a young girl, Miranda had never been told who her father was.  However, a picture returned to her in a suitcase that belonged to her mother led her to Carlton Heath and the identity of her father -- James Whitcomb, an actor, now deceased.

Although the Whitcomb family welcomes her, they ask her to not tell anyone that she is James' daughter as they don't want a family scandal.  When Miranda returns to spend Christmas with the Whitcomb family the following year and to become engaged to Ian, the local man she fell in love with last year, someone has discovered her true parentage and is threatening to tell all.  She fears the family she has found will want nothing to do with her if that happens.

I love this series and I cannot wait to see the last episode in the trilogy - "Marrying Father Christmas."  Unfortunately, it just aired in December 2018 and is not yet available at my local library!  pazt