Part of Blossom Street, book 3.5
First published 2006
Katherine O'Connor sits in her favorite Blossom Street cafe in Seattle, crafting Christmas letters that transform ordinary lives into something more exciting and dramatic. She has a talent for finding humor and interest in the mundane details her clients share. Dr. Wynn Jeffries also visits the same cafe, but he brings a completely different perspective on the holiday season. The respected child psychologist believes Christmas traditions like Santa Claus teach children to accept lies and deception. He even suggests parents should abandon the Santa myth entirely. Katherine watches her five-year-old twin nieces struggle under Wynn's Free Child parenting methods and becomes convinced his theories cause more harm than good. She confronts Wynn about his rigid philosophy while he dismisses her letter writing as pure fiction. Their heated debates become a regular feature of their cafe encounters. Neither can resist challenging the other's beliefs, yet neither wants their arguments to end. As Christmas approaches, Katherine and Wynn begin to see past their disagreements and discover something deeper growing between them.
Genres: fiction, romance, christmas, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Seattle
Period: Christmas
269 pages · Hardcover · Mira