The Christmas Wish Society
(2026)(The first book in the Cranberry Cove Christmas series)
A novel by Amy Rafferty
In Cranberry Cove, you can write a letter to Santa. And somehow, Santa always answers.
For forty years, those letters have found their way to the town post office. They aren't asking for bicycles or toys. They hold the wishes people whisper only to themselves: for a lonely heart to mend, for a family to find its way back to joy. And every Christmas, quietly, those wishes come true.
No one knows who grants them. Until now.
When Vivian Ellis takes a fall beneath the town's Wish Tree just as the holidays begin, she confesses a secret to her four closest friends: she had answered every letter herself. Now, with this year's letters waiting and Christmas fast approaching, she needs them to carry on what she started.
For Maggie Bennett, giving has always been easy. Since losing her husband, the sixty-two-year-old widow has filled her days with casseroles, committee meetings, and caring for everyone but herself.
Then she opens her envelope. Inside is a letter from a seven-year-old boy named Theo. He's asking for just one thing: for his grandpa to stop being sad.
Ben Foster is facing his first Christmas without his wife.
Her decorations sit boxed in the attic, the house has gone quiet, and he has forgotten how to do anything but get through the day. Maggie knows that kind of grief all too well.
But as she gently draws Ben and Theo back into the twinkling lights and treasured traditions of the season, one small invitation at a time, she uncovers something she never expected – a wish of her own she's too afraid to make.
Was it chance that Vivian chose this letter for Maggie? Or did she know all along that the people granting a wish sometimes need it most?
The Christmas Wish Society is the first book in a heartwarming, clean and cozy Christmas series brimming with later-in-life romance, small-town warmth, lifelong friendship, and a forty-year-old mystery waiting to be unwrapped. Pour a mug of cocoa, curl up with the women of Cranberry Cove, and remember that it's never too late to make a wish.
Genre: Romance
For forty years, those letters have found their way to the town post office. They aren't asking for bicycles or toys. They hold the wishes people whisper only to themselves: for a lonely heart to mend, for a family to find its way back to joy. And every Christmas, quietly, those wishes come true.
No one knows who grants them. Until now.
When Vivian Ellis takes a fall beneath the town's Wish Tree just as the holidays begin, she confesses a secret to her four closest friends: she had answered every letter herself. Now, with this year's letters waiting and Christmas fast approaching, she needs them to carry on what she started.
For Maggie Bennett, giving has always been easy. Since losing her husband, the sixty-two-year-old widow has filled her days with casseroles, committee meetings, and caring for everyone but herself.
Then she opens her envelope. Inside is a letter from a seven-year-old boy named Theo. He's asking for just one thing: for his grandpa to stop being sad.
Ben Foster is facing his first Christmas without his wife.
Her decorations sit boxed in the attic, the house has gone quiet, and he has forgotten how to do anything but get through the day. Maggie knows that kind of grief all too well.
But as she gently draws Ben and Theo back into the twinkling lights and treasured traditions of the season, one small invitation at a time, she uncovers something she never expected – a wish of her own she's too afraid to make.
Was it chance that Vivian chose this letter for Maggie? Or did she know all along that the people granting a wish sometimes need it most?
The Christmas Wish Society is the first book in a heartwarming, clean and cozy Christmas series brimming with later-in-life romance, small-town warmth, lifelong friendship, and a forty-year-old mystery waiting to be unwrapped. Pour a mug of cocoa, curl up with the women of Cranberry Cove, and remember that it's never too late to make a wish.
Genre: Romance