Snow is falling in little village of Applemore and the Harbour Cafe is full of the scent of cinnamon and vanilla...
but owner Sarah Wilson is planning to skip the holidays this year.
The little coffeeshop is sparkling with fairy lights, but with her brother escaping to Morocco and no plans of her own, she's focused on what she can do to make the season special for everyone else.
Then Jim Fletcher walks through the door...
The professor from New England is spending the holidays in Applemore, researching small-town revivals and escaping his own ghosts. As their friendship grows over coffee and Sarah's famous gingerbread cookies, it turns into something more - snowy beach walks, sharing spiced apple cider by the village Christmas tree, and the sweet possibility of joy.
But Jim's research will end. He'll return to New England, and Sarah will stay exactly where she's always been - won't she?

Sometimes it takes a stranger to help you see that honouring the past doesn't mean surrendering your future - and the romance of Christmas can make it possible.

A standalone, sweet Christmas novella set in the much-loved village of Applemore.