Eden Martelli is too busy fleeing the clutches of danger to realize sheâs running straight into the arms of a new love. Beau will go to the ends of the earth to keep Eden safe. But whoâs going to protect his heart from a woman who canât seem to trust again?
Speeding north through rural Maine, Eden Martelli wonders how her life came to thisâon the run with her mute five-year-old son dozing fitfully in the passenger seat. When a breakdown leaves them stranded in Summer Harbor, Eden has no choice but to stay put through Christmas . . . even though they have no place to lay their heads.
Beau Callahan is a habitual problem solverâfor other people anyway. He left the sheriffâs department to take over his familyâs Christmas tree farm, but heâs still haunted by the loss of his parents and struggling to handle his first Christmas alone.
When Eden shows up looking for work just as Beauâs feisty aunt gets out of the hospital, Beau thinks heâs finally caught a break. Eden is competent and dedicatedâif a little guardedâand a knockout to boot. But, as he soon finds out, she also comes with a boatload of secrets.
Eden has been through too much to trust her heart to another man, but Beau is impossible to resist, and the feeling seems to be mutual. As Christmas Eve approaches, Edenâs past catches up to her.
Beau will go to the ends of the earth to keep her safe. But whoâs going to protect his heart from a woman who canât seem to trust again?
Denise Hunter is the internationally published, bestselling author of more than forty books, three of which have been adapted into original Hallmark Channel movies. She has won the Holt Medallion Award, the Readerâs Choice Award, the Carol Award, the Foreword Book of the Year Award, and is a RITA finalist. When Denise isnât orchestrating love lives on the written page, she enjoys traveling with her family, drinking chai lattes, and playing drums. Denise makes her home in Indiana, where she and her husband raised three boys and are now enjoying an empty nest and four beautiful grandchildren. Follow Denise at DeniseHunterBooks.com; Facebook: @AuthorDeniseHunter; X: @DeniseAHunter; Instagram: @deniseahunter.