Christmas, Nevada

Emery Calloway makes a living writing vanished places back into existence - ghost towns, abandoned Main Streets, places time forgot. She never expected to find one that hadn't finished disappearing.A freak December storm strands her in Christmas Flat - a town lit up gold for the holiday, impossible and not on any map she owns. It feels like the whole town's been waiting for someone. She's starting to think it might be her.There's Cole, the guarded keeper of the town's tree lot, who watches her too closely for a stranger. There's Dove, who swears Emery's finally come back. And there's a secret buried under seventy years of silence - one that reaches straight back to a Christmas Eve flood, and a family Emery never knew was hers.When the storm clears, Emery drives away certain she imagined the whole thing. A year later, she gets one more chance to find out if Christmas Flat - and the man waiting in it - was ever real at all.A cozy, mysterious small-town Christmas romance about the places we lose, the people who wait for us anyway, and the home you have to choose more than once.