A sharp writer who has never set foot in a kitchen passes herself off as the consummate housewife in the column she writes for a woman's magazine. When a promotional stunt plants her editor and a Navy war veteran at her fictitious home for Christmas dinner, she has to marry her boyfriend, find a house and prepare a spectacular meal, pronto. Life grows even more complicated when she starts to fall for the sailor.
A female newspaper columnist who writes about being a housewife scrambles to keep her job when her publisher invites himself to her alleged home for the holidays, and must find a "Husband" and family in short order.
