This is Kristin Davis' second Christmas movie after Three Days (2001). Interestingly, that film also centers around her character dying at the beginning and features an angel.
Just under a year after the film premiered, it received a novelization by Rhonda Merwarth, released as the fourth e-book from the recently-launched Hallmark Publishing. Coincidentally, the novelization was released on the same day that the film premiered on French television: November 7, 2017.
Aired as the tenth of 19 original films in The Hallmark Channel's 2016 "Countdown to Christmas" lineup.