The Christmas Letter
(2026)(The second book in the Cranberry Cove Christmas series)
A novel by Amy Rafferty
In Cranberry Cove, Santa always answers. Even when the letter is about the one who got away.
Fifty-nine-year-old Diane Mercer has spent ten years rebuilding her life after divorce. She has a thriving business, grown children, loyal friends, and a carefully organized home. She tells everyone she's perfectly content. Most days, she almost believes it.
Then she opens her envelope.
It's from Eleanor Donnelly, written just before she passed away, and her wish is painfully simple: "I wish my Ray wasn't so alone out there."
Not just any Ray. Her Ray. The first boy she ever loved, and the man she's spent half her life pretending no longer matters.
Before he left Cranberry Cove, each of them waited for the other to speak up. Neither did. He boarded his plane, she stayed behind, and pride turned a single parting into decades of silence.
Now Ray is back to empty his late mother's house, sell it, and leave again right after Christmas. He insists he isn't lonely and doesn't need anyone's help. But Eleanor had one last surprise: before she died, she volunteered the house for the town's Christmas House Tour and named Diane to run it.
As they sort through Eleanor's treasures, from the miniature harbor they painted together to a bundle of never-mailed postcards, the past they both pretended was over comes flooding back. So do the feelings. But Ray still has a plane ticket, and Diane won't spend another Christmas wondering whether he's coming back.
Granting Eleanor's wish was supposed to be about Ray. Instead, it's stirring up a wish Diane stopped making the day he left: to be chosen.
The Christmas Letter is the second book in a heartwarming, clean and cozy Christmas series brimming with later-in-life romance, second chances, and a forty-year-old mystery waiting to be unwrapped. Pour a mug of cocoa, settle in by the fire, and return to Cranberry Cove, where some wishes take thirty years to come true.
Genre: Romance
Fifty-nine-year-old Diane Mercer has spent ten years rebuilding her life after divorce. She has a thriving business, grown children, loyal friends, and a carefully organized home. She tells everyone she's perfectly content. Most days, she almost believes it.
Then she opens her envelope.
It's from Eleanor Donnelly, written just before she passed away, and her wish is painfully simple: "I wish my Ray wasn't so alone out there."
Not just any Ray. Her Ray. The first boy she ever loved, and the man she's spent half her life pretending no longer matters.
Before he left Cranberry Cove, each of them waited for the other to speak up. Neither did. He boarded his plane, she stayed behind, and pride turned a single parting into decades of silence.
Now Ray is back to empty his late mother's house, sell it, and leave again right after Christmas. He insists he isn't lonely and doesn't need anyone's help. But Eleanor had one last surprise: before she died, she volunteered the house for the town's Christmas House Tour and named Diane to run it.
As they sort through Eleanor's treasures, from the miniature harbor they painted together to a bundle of never-mailed postcards, the past they both pretended was over comes flooding back. So do the feelings. But Ray still has a plane ticket, and Diane won't spend another Christmas wondering whether he's coming back.
Granting Eleanor's wish was supposed to be about Ray. Instead, it's stirring up a wish Diane stopped making the day he left: to be chosen.
The Christmas Letter is the second book in a heartwarming, clean and cozy Christmas series brimming with later-in-life romance, second chances, and a forty-year-old mystery waiting to be unwrapped. Pour a mug of cocoa, settle in by the fire, and return to Cranberry Cove, where some wishes take thirty years to come true.
Genre: Romance