McKenzie Westmore is on cloud nine about joining the Hallmark family. The Passions alum stars in her first-ever Hallmark movie, Love in the Clouds. She plays Brooklyn, a reporter who travels to the Balloon Fiesta to meet hot air balloon pilot Jared (Paul Greene). As Brooklyn steps outside her comfort zone, sparks start flying—and we’re not just talking about the ones from the hot air balloon’s burner.

Westmore told Swooon that she’s been wanting to do a Hallmark movie “for a decade.” After her work in soaps and on QVC, Hallmark was “a natural crossover in my mind.”