The Christmas Letters We Never Sent: A Sapphic Small-Town Romance

Twenty-seven Christmas letters were never delivered. Finishing what her aunt started will bring Margot Hayes dangerously close to the one woman with the most to lose from her plans.Margot returns to Hawthorn Crossing to settle her late aunt's estate, sell the struggling Lantern & Pine bookshop, and leave.Then she meets Iris Chen.Sharp-witted, quietly guarded, and devoted to the letterpress workshop she runs inside the building Margot needs to sell, Iris has every reason to keep her distance. But when they discover twenty-seven sealed letters Margot's aunt promised to deliver one Christmas later, completing her unfinished tradition keeps pulling them together.Through snowy deliveries and long hours at the bookshop, Iris's dry humor and quiet kindness begin slipping past Margot's carefully ordered defenses-and attraction becomes much harder to keep separate from everything at stake.Because the debt is coming due. A developer is waiting. And the certainty Margot came looking for could dismantle the life Iris has built.Some promises are impossible to make. But an uncertain future might still be worth choosing.The Christmas Letters We Never Sent is an emotionally mature sapphic Christmas romance with slow-burn longing, a cozy small-town bookshop, letterpress charm, and two capable women learning how much courage it takes to choose each other.