The Hot Cocoa Bookshop at Christmas Cove

She returned to sell the bookshop. She never expected to find her first love still waiting inside.Burned-out publishing editor Sophie Whitaker comes home to Christmas Cove after inheriting her grandmother's struggling seaside bookshop. Her plan is simple: keep the doors open through Christmas Eve, accept a generous property offer and return to the successful life she built in Boston.Then she discovers Luke Harrison behind the shop's beloved hot-cocoa counter.Luke is the childhood sweetheart Sophie left fifteen years ago-and the one person determined to stop the heart of Christmas Cove from becoming a luxury holiday rental. Forced to work together, Sophie and Luke revive the shop with fireside readings, festive deliveries and carefully chosen book-and-cocoa gifts. The closer Christmas comes, the harder it becomes to ignore the feelings neither of them truly left behind.But hidden inside the old building are letters revealing the truth about Sophie's family, her mother's sudden departure and the famous cocoa recipe her grandmother claimed as her own.With a career-defining promotion waiting in Boston and the future of the shop hanging in the balance, Sophie must decide whether home is the place she escaped-or the future she is finally ready to choose.A heartwarming, closed-door Christmas romance featuring childhood sweethearts, forced proximity, family secrets, a snowy seaside town and an earned second chance at love.