The Nutcracker's Secret: A Sweet Small-Town Christmas Romance

di L. Bennett (Autore)

L. Bennett, 2026

"A heart with a crack in it is a heart that has been used." When toy restorer Marcy Sloan returns to the snowy town of Pinebrook after ten years away, she expects to quietly settle her late grandfather Conrad's affairs. Instead, she inherits The Wooden Heart—the town's historic hand-carved toy shop—under one impossible condition: before midnight on Christmas Eve, she must finish the vintage nutcracker sitting on his workbench and give it to the woman it was carved for. There's just one problem: the nutcracker has been missing an arm for forty years, and inside its teeth is a smooth walnut inscribed with seven mysterious words: For June, if she ever cracks me open. Unable to carve the delicate wood herself, Marcy turns to the only man in town who can: Lon McIntosh. Conrad's former star apprentice and the boy Marcy loved when she was sixteen, Lon has spent the last twelve years hiding in a shed behind the church, nursing a scarred, trembling hand and a wounded heart. With an aggressive property buyer waiting for the will to fail, and the sweet jam-maker June preparing to leave Pinebrook forever on Christmas morning, Marcy and Lon are forced to work side by side among the cedar shavings and glowing holiday lights. Together, they must piece together the nutcracker—and the forty years of silent devotion Conrad was too scared to confess. As the holiday deadline approaches, Lon and Marcy discover that fear isn't the end of love, but the beginning of courage. To save the shop and heal three generations of regret, two guarded souls must learn to hold their trembling hands steady and finally say the words they've kept locked inside. Can they crack open forty years of secrets before Christmas Eve runs out, or will their second chance be lost forever?

• Autore: L. Bennett
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: L. Bennett
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237233896