The Secret Son of Santa

Evie Hartwell keeps Christmas alive in Holly Ridge, Vermont — a year-round Christmas shop, her mother's bakery recipes, and the Winterberry Festival her family has run for sixty-one years. But this December the festival's sponsor has pulled out, the barn roof is leaking, and Evie personally guaranteed the loan. If the festival fails, she loses the shop by spring. Then a drifter carpenter named Jack Winter rolls into town in a dying pickup — and stays. He wears a T-shirt in a Vermont winter and is never cold. He knows where lost things are hiding. And he hears wishes people never say out loud — including Evie's: that somebody would finally stay. Jack has a secret older than the town's oldest legend. He is Santa Claus's hidden son, kept from the North his whole life for his own protection — and Christmas Eve is coming, with a father he has never met walking up Sugar Hill Road. A warm, wholesome Christmas romance about wishes, staying, and the family you choose. The Secret Son of Santa is Book 1 of the Holly Ridge Romance trilogy.