The Keeper and the Mechanic

Juniper Vale has kept the Valley List for six years — carried Holly Ridge's wishes north every December, and carried one page of it back south again, folded small, where the North would never look. That page holds the valley's wishes for Jack Winter, Santa's hidden son — and one wish of her own, unsigned, at the bottom. Now the North has written on green paper: Bring the whole List. A wish made for a Claus child, read at the North, would not be a wish — it would be a claim. And the keeping itself is coming due, because a Keeper's work runs on truth, and Juniper has been lying by omission for six years. Sam Hartwell, the mechanic who has loved her for two years, has fixed every engine in town except the one in her little green car — which has never once been broken. Until now. A storm, a breakdown on the Miller road, and a choosing written in Jack's own hand give Juniper one December to stop carrying it alone. A warm, wholesome Christmas romance about a secret carried too long, and the man who answers a wish by staying. The Keeper and the Mechanic is Book 3 of the Holly Ridge Romance trilogy — and it closes the trilogy.