Snowfall, Stitching & Starting Here: A Delaney Novel

Eden Kelleher has built her life around temporary things. Temporary contracts. Temporary apartments. Temporary goodbyes before anyone can ask her to stay. When an unexpected production shutdown sends the traveling costume designer back to Delaney for the winter, Eden plans to keep her return brief, practical, and emotionally uncomplicated. Then a snowstorm, an overloaded Subaru, and one dangerously competent paramedic pull her straight into the chaos of the town's Winter Lights Festival. Brooke Alvarez has never seen staying as failure. As a local paramedic and reluctant festival volunteer, Brooke knows exactly how messy Delaney can be-and exactly why she loves it anyway. She has built a life there with purpose, community, and roots. Eden, with her sharp humor, guarded heart, and gorgeous costume sketches, is the kind of complication Brooke never saw coming. Between lantern processions, snowed-in emergencies, late-night sewing repairs, and a festival committee with absolutely no sense of reasonable scale, Eden and Brooke's slow-burning connection begins to feel less temporary than Eden intended. But when a career opportunity offers Eden the perfect exit route, she has to decide whether leaving is still freedom-or whether staying can be its own kind of bravery. Snowfall, Stitching & Starting Here is a cozy, low-heat sapphic small-town romance about winter festivals, found community, emotional courage, and choosing the life that finally feels like home.