The Gingerbread Bookshop

This Christmas, every wish has a story. Some are harder to answer than others.

June Mercer has spent three years keeping The Gingerbread Bookshop alive in the snowy Vermont town of Bellweather. With winter bills looming and Christmas Eve approaching, she can't afford miracles. She needs customers.

Then someone leaves a simple invitation among the donated books:

Leave a wish in a book. Someone might have an answer.

Soon, impossible little kindnesses begin appearing around the shop-and no one knows who's behind them.

Theo Alden, the warmhearted baker next door, is happy to help June uncover the mystery. Between gingerbread deliveries, snowy walks, and preparations for Christmas Eve, their longtime friendship begins turning into something neither of them planned.

But one wish isn't anonymous to June.

It contains a childhood memory only someone from her family could know-and points toward the aunt she hasn't spoken to in years.

As Christmas draws closer, June must decide how far to follow the mystery, whether some broken relationships deserve another conversation, and whether letting someone into her life is very different from needing them to save it.

A warm, uplifting small-town Christmas romance filled with books, gingerbread, family secrets, quiet acts of kindness, and an emotionally satisfying happily ever after.