For thirty-one years, Gwen Radliff has built Christmas for everyone else. This year, she may finally find one of her own.
At fifty-five, Gwen designs the Christmas Eve windows at Halliday’s on Fifth Avenue, the kind people line up around the block to see. This year’s centerpiece needs a real hand-built sleigh, so she finds herself in Candlewick Mill, Vermont, where she'll look at the sleigh, write the check, and go home.
Except the hundredth Lachance sleigh is still unfinished in Mitch Lachance’s workshop, exactly where his mother left it before she died in March. And Mitch isn’t selling before Christmas.
For ninety-nine years, every Lachance sleigh has made its first run on Christmas Eve, climbing Candlewick Mountain while the town follows behind with lanterns. Mitch promised his mother the hundredth would make the trip too.
Gwen’s store window opens that same night. Five hours south. She has until December twenty-second to change his mind.
Neither of them has made a plan for what happens if, somewhere between ugly snow boots, cardamom buns, and nineteen days in the same workshop, going home becomes the harder choice.
A warm, sweet, closed-door Christmas romance about two people in their fifties, one unfinished sleigh, and a town very good at making room for one more.
Genre: Romance
At fifty-five, Gwen designs the Christmas Eve windows at Halliday’s on Fifth Avenue, the kind people line up around the block to see. This year’s centerpiece needs a real hand-built sleigh, so she finds herself in Candlewick Mill, Vermont, where she'll look at the sleigh, write the check, and go home.
Except the hundredth Lachance sleigh is still unfinished in Mitch Lachance’s workshop, exactly where his mother left it before she died in March. And Mitch isn’t selling before Christmas.
For ninety-nine years, every Lachance sleigh has made its first run on Christmas Eve, climbing Candlewick Mountain while the town follows behind with lanterns. Mitch promised his mother the hundredth would make the trip too.
Gwen’s store window opens that same night. Five hours south. She has until December twenty-second to change his mind.
Neither of them has made a plan for what happens if, somewhere between ugly snow boots, cardamom buns, and nineteen days in the same workshop, going home becomes the harder choice.
A warm, sweet, closed-door Christmas romance about two people in their fifties, one unfinished sleigh, and a town very good at making room for one more.
Genre: Romance
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