The Cranberry Inn

An unputdownable, feel-good Christmas romance about fresh starts, the importance of family and learning how to follow your heart. Perfect for fans of Mary Alice Monroe, Rachel Hanna and Carolyn Brown. As twinkling lights go up and snowflakes begin to fall, Laurel Hanover and her eight-year-old son are going home to the Cranberry Inn in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Laurel cant wait to leave New York behind to help her father run the family business, and make snow angels with her son, even if its just for Christmas. But when she walks through the door, shes shocked to find the inn in disrepair, and a letter saying her father will be gone until Christmas Eve No one in town knows where Laurels father is, and she doesnt know whether to be worried or angry but she wont let the inn go under, and nothing will get in the way of the perfect Christmas for her son. Seeing the worn-out wooden bannisters, bare of festive lights, she immediately recruits her childhood friend, brooding local carpenter Joel Hutcherson. They might disagree on whether any walls actually need to come down, but each rip in the carpet makes Laurel more concerned for her father, and Joel is a welcome distraction. And when he admits that Laurel was his first crush, she realises shes falling for him. But then Laurel uncovers a card with beautiful, ornate writing amongst her fathers things and learns the real reason he disappeared. And it changes everything. Worse still, she thinks Joel knew the truth all along. Laurel thought this was going to be the perfect Christmas that maybe she had found her happy. But now theres nothing to stop her from running back to New York the moment the baubles come down is there?