Lakeshore Christmas

The sixth Lakeshore Chronicles novel takes Susan Wiggs's Willow Lake community into the holidays. Maureen Davenport, the prim town librarian, has finally been handed the chance to direct Avalon's annual Christmas pageant, and she means to make it truly spectacular.

The catch is her co-director. Eddie Haven is a recovering former child star, long-haired and tattooed, and as far as Maureen is concerned he is a lump of coal in her pageant stocking. They fight over every detail of the production.

What starts as friction over the perfect performance turns, slowly, into something warmer, in a small-town Christmas romance about second chances for two people who have both been quietly stuck.